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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 33664@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33664: 26.1; Document vars and functions in `cursor-sensor.el'
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:35:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k1kl5ozh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cfd3992c-7a13-4ff5-816f-689ceb856396@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 7 Dec 2018 15:15:37 +0000 (UTC))

> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 15:15:37 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 
> Please document the variables and functions in `cursor-sensor.el'.  It
> would be a step backward for Emacs to document less and less.  Calling
> something an "internal" function is not, in itself, a sufficient reason
> not to give it a doc string.
> 
> In particular, please add a doc string for variable
> `cursor-sensor-inhibit'.
> 
> I was reading the `isearch.el' code and saw this: (push 'isearch
> cursor-sensor-inhibit).  Had to start searching `cursor-sensor.el' to
> try to understand what this variable is for.  Even that didn't really
> help, since there is nothing in `cursor-sensor.el' that would lead one
> to understand that the variable is used somehow as a list of values.
> 
> Even grepping for that var didn't help with such understanding, as there
> are no uses of it outside of isearch.el.
> 
> Isearch apparently goes to the trouble of allowing for the var to be
> used as a list (similar to `buffer-invisibility-spec', perhaps), but
> there is no comment, doc, or spec describing this behavior/use in
> `cursor-sensor.el'.

AFAIK, about the only person who could do something about this doesn't
read bug reports.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-07 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<cfd3992c-7a13-4ff5-816f-689ceb856396@default>
     [not found] ` <<83k1kl5ozh.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-12-07 15:57   ` bug#33664: 26.1; Document vars and functions in `cursor-sensor.el' Drew Adams
2018-12-07 16:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-08 23:10     ` Juri Linkov
2018-12-09  3:53       ` Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <<jwvo99u4x81.fsf-monnier+bug#33664@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <<83zhte3f4n.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-12-07 15:15     ` Drew Adams
2018-12-07 15:28       ` Drew Adams
2018-12-07 15:34         ` Drew Adams
2018-12-07 15:35       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-12-08  3:24         ` Richard Stallman
2018-12-09 14:01       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-09 15:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-10  3:09         ` Richard Stallman
2018-12-09 18:38       ` Drew Adams
2019-10-12 22:12         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-12-09 18:32     ` Drew Adams
2018-12-09 19:35       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-09 20:56         ` Drew Adams
2018-12-10  1:58           ` Stefan Monnier

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