From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Meaning of ": Use it"
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:35:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C57F0DA.3020402@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5igt48y.fsf@member.fsf.org>
Am 03.08.2010 11:49, schrieb Tassilo Horn:
> Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
>> for example in ChangeLog.12, line 2470, it's written
>>
>> (gdb-stack-buffer, gdb-frames-select): Use it.
>>
>> Does the term "Use it" have a special meaning with respect to
>> execution? Does it mean something like implicit?
>
> You've put it out of context. The complete ChangeLog entry is as
> follows:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> 2007-01-21 Nick Roberts<nickrob@snap.net.nz>
>
> * progmodes/gdb-ui.el (gdb-var-create-regexp)
> (gdb-var-create-handler): Handle value field in GDB output of
> -var-create.
> (gdb-max-frames): New variable.
> (gdb-stack-buffer, gdb-frames-select): Use it.
> (gdb-info-stack-custom): Help user customize gdb-max-frames,
> if necessary.
> (gdb-get-frame-number): Simplify.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> So before the "Use it" line, a new variable `gdb-max-frames' was
> introduced. The two functions `gdb-stack-buffer' and
> `gdb-frames-select' were changed to *use it* then.
Thanks,
so I understand: *use it* relates to newly introduced forms upward the
current line.
Was not obvious for me, sorry. :)
Andreas
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-03 7:41 Meaning of ": Use it" Andreas Röhler
2010-08-03 9:49 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-08-03 10:35 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
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2010-08-03 8:24 ` David Kastrup
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