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From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
Cc: 25428@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25428: 25.1; Incorrect doc string for `delete-selection-mode'
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:24:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lt7ylrk.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efsbrm9u.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (N. Jackson's message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2017 21:55:09 -0400")

nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) writes:

> [Temporary minor rant: Personally it seems absurd to me that a
> `nil' argument doesn't turn a minor mode off; and that calling the
> minor mode function with no argument doesn't toggle it. But that
> is all history of course.]

There is a good reason to have it like that: it allows doing

    (add-hook 'some-hook #'the-minor-mode)

Rather than having to do

    (add-hook 'some-hook (lambda () (the-minor-mode +1)))

or

    (defun turn-on-the-minor-mode () (the-minor-mode +1))
    (add-hook 'some-hook #'turn-on-the-minor-mode)





  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-17  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-12 16:24 bug#25428: 25.1; Incorrect doc string for `delete-selection-mode' Drew Adams
2017-08-17  1:55 ` N. Jackson
2017-08-17  2:24   ` npostavs [this message]
2017-08-17  3:25   ` Drew Adams
2017-08-26  9:03     ` Eli Zaretskii

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