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From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
To: "Phil Sainty" <psainty@orcon.net.nz>,
	"積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>,
	38601@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38601: describe-mode never says the most important thing
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 23:00:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e2xtfkk.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23f279f3-f2a6-6327-b1eb-0d167cdfad22@orcon.net.nz>

Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:

> (I do think there's an argument for showing the mode symbol rather
> than a capitalised variant of the name in the `describe-mode' help;
> but that's a different conversation.)

A different conversation but I didn't see that so I take the opportunity
to agree here. The capitalized variants of the command name was always
confusing to me -- is it the command name, only with a big letter in the
beginning, or is it some sort of doxy description that is not the same
as the command name. Easy to check, but anyway.

The help for a specific function has a different approach, not
capitalized.

Best regards
--
Tomas





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-15 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-13 23:29 bug#38601: describe-mode never says the most important thing 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-14  7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-15 20:58   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-04-18 16:43   ` Stefan Kangas
2019-12-15  2:09 ` Phil Sainty
2019-12-15 20:28   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-15 22:00   ` Tomas Nordin [this message]
2019-12-15 22:32     ` Phil Sainty
2019-12-16 21:36       ` Juri Linkov

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