From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why can't I turn off scroll bars? Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 18:59:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4BF94CC1.5000502@swipnet.se> <6D11E5C9CC7F4D508E233527272C0A15@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274633983 4465 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2010 16:59:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 16:59:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Jan_Dj=C3=A4rv?= , Emacs-Devel devel , Deniz Dogan To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 23 18:59:41 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGEWX-00037t-SD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 18:59:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52874 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGEWX-0005D7-Df for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 12:59:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59380 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGEWP-0005Cm-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 12:59:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGEWO-0002G9-7z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 12:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com ([209.85.217.220]:50623) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGEWO-0002G4-4k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 12:59:28 -0400 Original-Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so1337850gxk.12 for ; Sun, 23 May 2010 09:59:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=S3mhb/aXns+D/hjhm7zqsb7cobFKziUJEw3Hhoq6m3I=; b=ErM1lJdWFja39HzJPqjm0m4358rWEA2TfjNt1ev562BGfOEt3e0vAbRz2vSeQKtPMQ KD+9hXaOi/6MCpIlCrds4LpW0X8ODR5dHgJ6Fp2Doxci2av+FS5ATKu7ERGPhLyrqiut kUdKRrzzwAc1/0SarT/GM5/7XFdYZ0qOH7HX8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=srhza52kcSYqjgzlgCijXY3OXcFA+Z432dv4Ji+n+mpNtfSLFKnp24tSVLEHfUBHqA r7QLDfjxFqt8ug9JhNlYfctPMsXG+W9Mtz/ZafGnXRx1iv6E6tAc9H9scNVAdcmyBcKP LrL3tZyjzw0tnKQU31j8dWqe7w+jJQffKo5ZY= Original-Received: by 10.101.139.37 with SMTP id r37mr5274408ann.75.1274633967159; Sun, 23 May 2010 09:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.100.177.20 with HTTP; Sun, 23 May 2010 09:59:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6D11E5C9CC7F4D508E233527272C0A15@us.oracle.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:125131 Archived-At: On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Drew Adams wrote: >> >> "With a numeric argument, if the argument is positive >> >> turn on scroll bars; otherwise turn off scroll bars." >> > >> > (And 0 is not a positive number.) >> >> So there is a documentation error in define-minor-mode. > > Is there? =C2=A0Please be specific. Which part of the doc is erroneous, a= nd how? > > I just looked at the doc for `define-minor-mode', both the Elisp manual a= nd the > doc string. =C2=A0I do not see where it suggests that 0 is a positive num= ber - or > anything like that. =C2=A0Rather than expecting people to spend time sear= ching for > what you might mean, please point specifically to the problem text. =C2= =A0Thx. Ah, you are right. define-minor-mode does not add this part of the doc string (yet). I suggested that it should but we have not made that change yet.