From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Documenting universal-async-argument
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 19:27:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wot2p2eu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8k6upoa.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:06:29 +0200)
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:06:29 +0200
>
> > This command is about using threads, right? So how about documenting
> > it somewhere under "Threads"?
>
> It is about threads just now. But it could be also for other
> asynchronous command behavior, later on.
Do we really envision any other kind of asynchronicity in Emacs, any
time soon? I'd be surprised.
> It is just a knob ("prefix command"), which tells the following command
> "If you know something about asynchronity, and if you care, be informed
> that the user wants you to run asynchronous".
universal-coding-system-argument is also "just a knob", and yet it is
described where coding-systems are.
But feel free to find a different place, mine is just one opinion, and
not a very strong one in this case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-07 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-07 12:00 Documenting universal-async-argument Michael Albinus
2018-08-07 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-07 16:06 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-07 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-08-07 16:41 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17 15:02 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 11:12 ` Michael Albinus
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