From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Glenn Morris'" <rgm@gnu.org>, <10868@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:01:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3251750A293C4D74AAB64FD8672192CE@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b4nuizqj9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> > Read the bug #3370 thread, if you want to understand the problem.
>
> Unfortunately, I did. It is long-winded and goes nowhere.
> I encourage everyone else not to bother.
Is it really so hard to understand?
"the doc string for `comment-style' (which is pretty much
useless) refers to `comment-styles', which is not
recognized (and therefore has no link)."
emacs -Q
C-h v comment-style
Style to be used for `comment-region'.
See `comment-styles' for a list of available styles.
C-h v comment-styles
Bzzzzt -not recognized - no such variable, no such "list of available styles"
... until you load newcomment.el.
There is a user option (`comment-style'), which you can customize. But its doc
tells you nothing useful. It just refers you to an internal variable
(`comment-styles'), which has no doc until you load its library.
The doc for `comment-styles' _is_ helpful ... once it becomes available.
Here is a case where we actually autoload a user option, `comment-style', so its
(useless) doc is available prior to loading the library.
But that doc string just refers you to a variable (constant, actually) whose doc
(the advertised "list of available styles") is not available until you load the
library.
Bravo. Thanks for helping users out.
> > There is no _explanation_ of `comment-style'.
>
> Right, well, good luck with your future bug reporting.
So constructive.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-22 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-22 17:17 bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained Drew Adams
2012-02-22 17:38 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-22 18:06 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-22 18:11 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-22 19:01 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-02-23 9:22 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-02-23 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-23 15:35 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-23 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-23 16:13 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-25 3:08 ` Chong Yidong
2012-02-23 17:16 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-23 17:22 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-23 17:24 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-02-23 17:34 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-23 21:48 ` Finding a variable before it's loaded Stefan Monnier
2012-02-23 22:29 ` Lennart Borgman
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