From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documenting universal-async-argument Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:06:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87h8k6upoa.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87ftzq8jze.fsf@gmx.de> <8336vqqikk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533657973 19411 195.159.176.226 (7 Aug 2018 16:06:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 16:06:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 18:06:08 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 1fn4Uq-0004zQ-Lt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:06:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39929 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn4Wx-0006db-Bq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:08:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48139) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn4VH-0005bD-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:06:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn4VE-0003GR-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:06:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:43711) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn4VE-0003Fh-AV; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:06:32 -0400 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([212.91.242.64]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Mh9cj-1fZXrb17kP-00MIvA; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:06:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: <8336vqqikk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:53:31 +0300") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:87Q2uhN7CwkiPZVJZHDurPuJ5qQ2LSPHQEK4ktDAjQgySzccJj2 anIx0uhrVVhEVu3LDxvGkffLFesKAm6QwlXSsQrBh5EtQTl4EevQ5XrGHTH/3tvVVKNjWQN EcZhZpl5Bvu9vMsk+Tt5YUpwg/Eo+N4mVJfush8Q8RpjfehCn6osfF/n+gmpC4OcyD9KDlk db+JOYhHamYSUBxRI9syg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:qm4NoTXwtZk=:ZlL0BNLWXCvqA552N1GV7E +RO7UNV71SrpYBlq4v6txxyEbFlWWYhPfck3RnU09nK8kNhphW1vR5vZu6kt9Ftho8GiWy6ho mEk8Suue99x/tU1kE79FiyPq3mTSKFllPSM6728y4/3mFFkvOwk/U/zQWGBUoISzOwVptQ8/P Bp0pR1OdZuUdIi6e2qgDAXrwfEuK3IRvwaNMxx/XIHhZBq9PLPeMsQs5tzhngKzwmfXwvZ37q iErGl81rGV0F82tlR0pexKDmx5kWOU3niLnp2lCpOamVLUJIiYxRD+KEIBcbSnhJgQeH2jVZN Tzsfc/nQJqDVOCZtwc5KMf+UPWDg//ur4/sq1GgKOjuA4ZdtN8a6P7BUYwFjKl9GGDHgx9u6/ aCeDMZJGbnBea+Hvbt+OGXP675G+YtSoWFPfLwU9HYn3BlOYol4uY3ChGAPMC10iIlNIrMw+7 Z1u+YOyZwb+UoKx5juN2YRcVg+lFVRBOoKkkCoFT1lv81fp+OiEWhMKh9T6w5a/k/FKMudunU d6oQ7+4Pck8dMftSAfDDn+sEAyckeTBWf9a+xJEwxRVfDOf16cTdT3VBZfOS6d9kHMmSHgjR1 JYaQtfuE4LDbartwghUe/SgT7O/7Fru9lJZJYPz4Yhzj+r+qcA4OvB5xm9uFPxuX1YYAePiiL OWdDpOXA8zJP67m+XfMJ4Kk4PTzXaAOgFQcfPyfeXnryURELvnA2UJZZFoJmhIbE1aBDfCjFv NodRhPQDnWnYDXNrsKL/t7WGD+9zVTH/OCRDmboK9eVcY/0nY7qkdnYgbYT4BxZSS0WkA62h X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.21 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:228282 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> I'd like to document the prefix command universal-async-argument in the >> Emacs Lisp manual. But I don't know where. > > 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. 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". Whatever this means. Best regards, Michael.