From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Romain Francoise Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: setq-default docstring fix Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 22:56:47 +0200 Organization: orebokech dot com Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87y8o6iods.fsf@orebokech.com> References: <87brl4w0tr.fsf@orebokech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083793083 24077 80.91.224.253 (5 May 2004 21:38:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 21:38:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 23:37:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLU5U-0005SZ-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 23:37:56 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLU5U-0004g0-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 23:37:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLTgL-0000jr-QI for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:11:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLTW2-0004Mr-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:01:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLTVP-0003w4-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [82.67.41.165] (helo=yeast.orebokech.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLTRl-0001JD-3C; Wed, 05 May 2004 16:56:53 -0400 Original-Received: from swift (swift [192.168.1.6]) by yeast.orebokech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA6E12C3E; Wed, 5 May 2004 22:55:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by swift (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 50BF718069; Wed, 5 May 2004 22:56:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 05 May 2004 16:20:38 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22820 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22820 Richard Stallman writes: > As far as I can see, the doc string calls in VAR part of the time and > SYMBOL part of the time, which you could think of as an inconsistency, > but was not a real inconsistency the way it was done. Yes, I was merely suggesting we should fix the inconsistency. A new feature was installed in HEAD that makes arguments from the arglist be displayed in another color in the docstring: VAR wasn't highlighted when VALUE and SYMBOL were. It might be confusing to less experienced users. > But it would lose nothing to change it to say VAR uniformly. I already sent a patch to that effect to emacs-devel. -- Romain Francoise | Shine the headlight, straight it's a miracle -- http://orebokech.com/ | into my eyes.