From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Small but confusing doc error in easy-menu-define Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:33:31 +0200 Message-ID: <461E898B.5010005@gmail.com> References: <461D5C8A.3010704@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176406457 3565 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2007 19:34:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:34:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 12 21:34:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hc53Z-0000ri-DK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:34:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hc57k-0002kx-SC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:38:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hc57h-0002gd-4x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:38:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hc57g-0002fj-Q9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:38:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hc57g-0002fP-H1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:38:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hc53U-0000WQ-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:34:04 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:60435 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hc53R-0006nX-9X; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:34:02 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000733-0, 2007-04-11), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Hc53R-0006nX-9X. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1Hc53R-0006nX-9X 30112dc18284b4cdac2579e482d1c26f X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69345 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> The doc string for easy-menu-define says that > >> "If SYMBOL is non-nil, store the menu keymap in the value of symbol, >> and define symbol as a function to pop up the menu, with doc as its >> doc string." > >> I looks like it is enough that SYMBOL is just a symbol name (it need not be >> interned). > > I'm not sure I understand: a symbol can be either interned or not. > I.e. an uninterned symbol *is a symbol*. OTOH a symbol name is *not* > a symbol: it's a string. To me it would be easier to understand if it said "SYMBOL may be nil or a symbol name. If it is a symbol name ..."