From: "T. V. Raman" <raman@users.sf.net>
To: jimb@red-bean.com
Cc: raman@users.sf.net, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: proced-refine: confusing doc string
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:30:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18657.36679.485198.413331@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f2776cb0809282327o701b7ba1y6953826a5117a99a@mail.gmail.com>
This would definitely help.
I'm still at a loss to understand how proced-refine works --
perhaps because I'm running outside X?
It's unclear how this thing is supposed to work on a text console.
>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:
Jim> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Lennart Borgman
Jim> (gmail) <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> T. V. Raman wrote:
>>> The proced-refine command has the following as part of
>>> its doc string:
>>>
>>> <cite> If point is on the attribute ATTR, this command
>>> compares the value of ATTR of every process with the
>>> value of ATTR of the process at the position of point.
>>> One can select processes for which the value of ATTR is
>>> \"less than\", \"equal\", and / or \"larger\" than ATTR
>>> of the process point is on.
>>>
>>> </cite>
>>>
>>> The initial sentence talks about point being in the
>>> header, the latter half talks about the process that
>>> point is on. How can point be in both places at once?
>>
>> Doesn't it mean the column ATTR (or however it is layed
>> out, I do not know)?
Jim>
Jim> It does --- but Raman is certainly not the only user
Jim> reading it that way. Should the docstring be more
Jim> explicit? Attached is what would make sense to me.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-30 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-28 19:41 proced-refine: confusing doc string T. V. Raman
2008-09-28 19:47 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-29 6:27 ` Jim Blandy
2008-09-30 2:30 ` T. V. Raman [this message]
2008-09-30 17:46 ` Jim Blandy
2008-10-01 3:01 ` T. V. Raman
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