From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: syntax highlighting Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 03:10:06 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87h9xxmf7l.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87d28m1usd.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <20141116220147423535443@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416276629 29962 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2014 02:10:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 02:10:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 18 03:10:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XqYFI-00041H-Fz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 03:10:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50972 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqYFH-0000zA-Ve for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:10:19 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:DKkE7R6jrug1SwzAYAalGKKPvZ4= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208732 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101010 Archived-At: Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro writes: > That docstring, and all the others describing minor > mode (de)activation commands are somewhat ambiguous > to me, because, as in math literature, "positive" > could or not include the number '0', depending on > author's definition. However, "strictly positive" > always excludes zero, while "non-negative" always > includes it. So, I think the latter would be a more > appropriate term, instead of simply "positive". Word! While it is many times an advantage to have multiple-purpose interfaces, for example (member 'b '(a b c)) ; (b c) (1) (member 'z '(a b c)) ; nil instead of having (1) evaluate to `t' (for "yes, 'b is a member"), when there *isn't* any second dimension to it, I think it is much clearer to just focus on the obvious usage and say exactly how to do it: "enable it with `t', disable with `nil', with 1 it works, with -1 it blows up the computer, etc.". > Ps: Emacs developers, please, take this as a bug > report ;-) Yeah, you wish. And me to. But report it the technical way, it is as fast for you as to write this message. -- underground experts united