From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: raman <raman@google.com>
Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:54:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d1uzz93q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p91io4sawna.fsf@google.com>
> From: raman <raman@google.com>
> Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:44:57 -0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> The quoting convention is confusing enough that at this point I just
> want it to say "it's value is a symbol" or "it's value is a string".
The question is, is something different about that particular doc
string as opposed to other doc strings which document symbol values?
If there's nothing different, you are supposed to have the same
problem with all the other doc strings, and we should either change
all of them, or none at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-24 15:54 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 [this message]
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
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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