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: Shift selection using interactive spec Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:53:43 +0100 Message-ID: <47EE2DC7.6010800@gmail.com> References: <87k5k69p92.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hcf6ratt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878x0if9ul.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87od9e9gnx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87skyo5bvk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87skynrin5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87iqzju0lq.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <851w5xx5ya.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87ve3993dt.fsf@jurta.org> <47EA37C7.7080502@gmail.com> <47EADCC4.2000207@gmail.com> <87iqz7wx7n.fsf@jurta.org> <851w5vti9y.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87tziqqtd0.fsf@jurta.org> <853aqarp06.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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: ger.gmane.org 1206791653 27126 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2008 11:54:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:54:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , jared@hpalace.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 29 12:54:43 2008 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 1JfZdy-0000Ay-B9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:54:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JfZdM-00008z-S7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfZdG-00005C-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:53:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfZdF-0008V2-5x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:53:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JfZdE-0008Uq-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:53:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JfZd7-00037a-JG; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:53:49 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-150-27.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.150.27]:60971 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JfZd4-0005Ph-6J; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:53:47 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <853aqarp06.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080328-0, 2008-03-28), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.150.27 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JfZd4-0005Ph-6J. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JfZd4-0005Ph-6J a9247a06424599f3cb6d2ca024b3f6aa X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:93777 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > So what about "self-documenting" applies to arbitrary properties? We > don't document functions by disassembling them, but by documentation > strings. The presence of a property is not self-explanatory, and it is > not apparent whether it may affect the variable, the function, or > something else. The self-documenting system takes care of some of the properties. Of course it should take care of the property we are talking about here.