From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documenting universal-async-argument Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 19:27:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83wot2p2eu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ftzq8jze.fsf@gmx.de> <8336vqqikk.fsf@gnu.org> <87h8k6upoa.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533659159 7651 195.159.176.226 (7 Aug 2018 16:25:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 16:25:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 18:25:55 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fn4ny-0001pS-PY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:25:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn4q3-0006of-LZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54851) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn4px-0006oZ-Pb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn4pv-0003zQ-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:27:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54801) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn4pv-0003zK-36; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:27:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3452 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fn4pu-0003yj-IU; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:27:54 -0400 In-reply-to: <87h8k6upoa.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:06:29 +0200) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228289 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > 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.