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From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
	72915@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72915: Docstrings of add-hook and remove-hook improvement?
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:49:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87frq1m3hg.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr09ldpuo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> The `add-hook` part was OK for me, indeed.
>
> [ I'm no great fan of that paragraph (neither the original nor the one
>   you replace it with), tho, because it's a bit "too detailed" for my
>   taste.  E.g. the value *always* ends up being a list of functions, and
>   the parenthesis states something which sounds to me like it should be
>   inferrable from the rest of the docstring.  ]

I think I agree, the parenthesized part could be discarded, shortening
the paragraph to

"HOOK should be a symbol.  If HOOK is void, or if HOOK's value is a
single function, it is changed to a list of functions."





      reply	other threads:[~2024-09-15 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-31 12:36 bug#72915: Docstrings of add-hook and remove-hook improvement? Tomas Nordin
2024-08-31 22:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-01  4:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-01  7:15   ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-01  7:18     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-01 14:17       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-01 15:47       ` Tomas Nordin
2024-09-14 13:31         ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-01 14:34   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-14 23:24     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-15 11:17       ` Tomas Nordin
2024-09-15 13:19         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-15 13:49           ` Tomas Nordin [this message]

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