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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
	Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>, "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
Cc: Emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:23:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5653D84A.2070200@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27c69be0-3326-41f5-bfaf-c0398a8e98dd@default>

Drew Adams wrote:

> 1. Just because you might make use of this
>     variable in the implementation of `substitute-command-keys',
>     that is no reason to document it here.

Where should it be documented?

> 2. What does this mean?

I changed that wording just now to try to clarify it a bit.

> 3. Why is this not a _user option_, instead of an internal
>     variable?

Stefan asked that it not be a custom var; see:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-08/msg01020.html

Seemed reasonable to me, too. Users who care about this sort of thing tend to be 
experts who don't need handholding.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-24  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-23 23:40 Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol? T.V Raman
2015-11-24  0:21 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-24  0:25   ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24  3:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24  3:44       ` raman
2015-11-24 15:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 16:21           ` raman
2015-11-24 16:28             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 23:17               ` John Wiegley
2015-11-24 23:38                 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-25  0:04                   ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-25  0:07                     ` T.V Raman
2015-11-25  0:10                     ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24 18:10           ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 18:21             ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24  2:18   ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24  3:23     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2015-11-24  3:50       ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24  5:54         ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 14:39           ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24 18:07             ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 16:17       ` Eli Zaretskii

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