From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 6bd9d69: Fix documentation of 'global-disable-point-adjustment'
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 05:27:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fuwkjecd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwva8msjvvj.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:13:36 -0500)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:13:36 -0500
>
> >> Why did you replace "sets" with "binds"?
> > Because that's how I tend to think about the act of giving a value to
> > a variable in Emacs Lisp.
>
> OK. To me, the fact that disable-point-adjustment needs to be setq'd by
> the command rather than let-bound is an important point (I'd expect this
> to surprise many coders since the usual way for a command to affect the
> behavior of Emacs "for this command only" is to let-bind a variable), so
> I find the new wording to encourage confusion rather than trying to
> avoid it.
If this is confusing, I will changing it back. What do others think?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-23 3:27 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <E1aXuK3-0005Mz-Ua@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2016-02-22 18:50 ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 6bd9d69: Fix documentation of 'global-disable-point-adjustment' Stefan Monnier
2016-02-22 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-22 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-22 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-22 21:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-23 3:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-02-23 3:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-23 4:16 ` Kaushal Modi
[not found] ` <<83fuwkjecd.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-02-23 7:10 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-23 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
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