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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: sit-for arg old-nodisp not documented
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:37:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42ECF035.2000008@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b050731081132ecfb85@mail.gmail.com>

Juanma Barranquero wrote:

>>`sit-for' has an argument old-nodisp that is not described in the doc
>>string.
>>    
>>
>
>Not exactly. If you read it again carefully, you'll notice `sit-for'
>has two modes of invocation:
>
>  - (modern):  (sit-for SECONDS &optional NODISP)
>  - (old): (sit-for SECONDS &optional MILLISECONDS NODISP)
>
>So the function is really defined as
>
>  (sit-for SECONDS &optional NODISP OLD-NODISP)
>  
>
Thanks, I did see that (though I am a lousy reader) but OLD-NODISP is 
still not mentioned. An easy way to fix this particular problem would 
perhaps be to just change the description of the old format (since that 
is just a part of the doc string I assume):

  - (old): (sit-for SECONDS &optional MILLISECONDS OLD-NODISP)

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-31 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-31  7:52 sit-for arg old-nodisp not documented Lennart Borgman
2005-07-31 15:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-31 15:37   ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-07-31 16:02     ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-31 16:12       ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-31 20:17         ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-31 21:12           ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-01  0:46 ` Richard M. Stallman

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