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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 22296@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22296: 25.1.50; Document changes to `delete-selection-mode'
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 21:05:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r3hy8owz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b4cae3f-6f4c-4784-85fc-36a659fe15fd@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 3 Jan 2016 10:52:23 -0800 (PST))

> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 10:52:23 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 22296-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > > Really?  The fact that you (apparently) can no longer specify that
> > > a given command is handled by killing the region?  The fact that
> > > there is a new possible value for the property (what is it for)?
> > >
> > > How is a user supposed to understand how to use d-s-mode if these
> > > things are not documented - either in a doc string or in a manual?
> > 
> > How did they understand this before?
> 
> It was in the doc string of d-s-mode.  Each of the possible
> property values was described.

In what version of Emacs?  I tried 24.3 and 24.1, and didn't see that
there.  Maybe I'm blind or didn't look where you intended me to look.
But then you never actually said that, did you?

> > This bug report says "please document changes to
> > delete-selection-mode".  I have shown that what was documented before
> > was updated.
> 
> No.  Previously the doc string documented the possible values
> for the property.  The new value is missing.
> 
> (And the deprecated value was removed from the doc string
> of the mode command but not from the doc string of *-helper.)

Please tell explicitly what function/variables you are alluding to
here, where this documentation existed and was removed.  Also, I don't
know what *-helper refers to.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-03 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2016-01-03 18:52           ` bug#22296: 25.1.50; Document changes to `delete-selection-mode' Drew Adams
2016-01-03 19:05             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2016-01-08 15:03                   ` Drew Adams
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2016-01-03 19:54               ` Drew Adams
2016-01-08 12:11                 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2016-01-03 18:00       ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03 18:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<660d1a46-fd5a-460f-8f26-50ba9a52cc60@default>
     [not found] ` <<83mvsmadhv.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-01-03 16:24   ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03 17:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03  4:12 Drew Adams
2016-01-03 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii

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