From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:02:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnmk13e3.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m37e8sywwd.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:38:42 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:
>
>> And in the case of variables, the trailing "You can _customize_ this
>> variable" which indicates a user option.
>
> Oh yeah, let's bikeshed the variable help buffers, too. Here's a random
> example:
>
> ---
> gnus-summary-article-delete-hook is a variable defined in ‘gnus-sum.el’.
> Its value is nil
> Local in buffer *Summary nnimap+quimby.gnus.org:emacs-devel*; global value is the same.
>
> This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable.
I'll lean out of my passing car and shoot a paintball at the shed:
I've never understood what "risky" meant. Why would I make it file-local
to begin with? What would happen if I did? Who would be at risk?
If any of this information belongs "below the fold", I'm voting for this
bit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-09 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-08 20:18 Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit? Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-08 20:29 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 20:31 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 21:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-08 22:26 ` bug#36478: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-08 23:21 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 23:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-09 13:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-10 3:58 ` Howard Melman
2019-07-10 11:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-10 12:59 ` Howard Melman
2019-07-10 14:06 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 21:14 ` bug#36478: " Stefan Monnier
2019-07-08 21:24 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-08 22:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 0:02 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2019-07-09 0:59 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-09 3:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87pnmk13e3.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net \
--to=eric@ericabrahamsen.net \
--cc=contovob@tcd.ie \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=larsi@gnus.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.