From: Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: doc for call-process, ARGS is missing
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:14:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bq5m2eiz.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqzu2ez1.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien Guerry's message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:04:34 +0000")
Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org> writes:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Chong Yidong wrote:
>>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> ARGS is totally missing from the doc string.
>>>
>>> Not so:
>>>
>>> Remaining arguments are strings passed as command arguments to PROGRAM.
>>
>> Thanks Chong and Bastien, it is there, but wouldn't it be good if it
>> were more explicit?
>
> "Remaing arguments ARGS" would perhaps be clearer. But ARGS is quite a
> standard way of referring to such remaining arguments...
And looking back again to the comment, I think the reason for not using
"Remaining argument ARGS" in the first place was to keep the whole line
under 75 characters - avoiding rejection of "PROGRAM" on a third line..
:-)
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-11 2:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-11 1:43 doc for call-process, ARGS is missing Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-11 1:47 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-11 1:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-11 2:04 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-03-11 2:14 ` Bastien Guerry [this message]
2008-03-11 1:55 ` Bastien
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