From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 6bd9d69: Fix documentation of 'global-disable-point-adjustment' Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 05:27:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83fuwkjecd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160222173059.20603.67344@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83k2lwk0er.fsf@gnu.org> <83io1gjwlp.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456198071 2431 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2016 03:27:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 03:27:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 23 04:27:47 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aY3db-0007NU-0D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 04:27:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53533 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aY3da-0004qp-Bh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:27:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55418) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aY3dW-0004qF-L5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:27:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aY3dS-0006AG-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:27:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54343) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aY3dR-0006AC-Ve; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:27:38 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1862 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aY3dR-0000uS-AX; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:27:37 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:13:36 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200524 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > 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?