From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
Cc: Patrick Michael Niedzielski <patrickniedzielski@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Wrong type error in dbus method
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:47:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zky0o2sp.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878w5qpaka.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:00:53 +0200")
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:
> I typed ‘i’ and Emacs beeped: "No index". That's a big hole.
> [If i were maintaining Emacs, i would add "all manuals have an
> index" as a strong requirement in admin/FOR-RELEASE (Manuals).]
Added.
> Re this particular problem (incorrect list construction), perhaps
> where it reads:
>
> All other arguments args are passed to METHOD as arguments. They
> are converted into D-Bus types as described in *note Type
> Conversion::.
>
> you could link to the Emacs Lisp manual, node "(elisp) Building Lists".
I've refrained from adding this. The concrete error was not related to
special dbus.el handling; pointing to list construction could be added
to any package specific manual otherwise ...
> I see this blurb is repeated in both Synchronous Methods and Asynchronous
> Methods, so another idea is to add to Overview a small section "Audience",
> with appropriate hints/links on Emacs Lisp programming, message bus fu,
> network etiquette, etc. The primary message there would be "to get the
> best out of this manual (& the API it describes & the peers with whom you
> will likely be communicating), move your mind here, first". Of course,
> if you are a mechanism/policy separation purist, this might chafe a bit.
This might be worth to add. But I still need some thinking about,
because it could tend to explain DBus itself, which shouldn't be done in
dbus.texi.
> thi
Best regards, Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-09 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-02 2:23 Wrong type error in dbus method Patrick Michael Niedzielski
2010-07-02 9:04 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-03 8:59 ` Michael Albinus
2010-07-05 9:00 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-05 15:04 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-05 18:34 ` Michael Albinus
2010-07-05 19:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-05 19:35 ` Michael Albinus
2010-07-05 20:40 ` Chad Brown
2010-07-05 15:45 ` Patrick Michael Niedzielski
2010-07-05 18:40 ` Michael Albinus
2010-07-09 19:47 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
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