From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: doc string of customize-apropos-options Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:33:26 -0800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197787653 24896 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2007 06:47:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:47:33 +0000 (UTC) To: "Bug-Gnu-Emacs" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 16 07:47:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J3nHq-0007wf-9K for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:47:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J3nHS-0006xy-OL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:47:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J3mcQ-0000rg-OG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:04:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J3mcO-0000q3-Vf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:04:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J3mcO-0000pq-LI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:04:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J3j7c-00083t-2A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:20:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J3eiD-0000Gk-MO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:38:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id lBFLYAvl031182 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:34:10 -0700 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id lBFJxAgl022060 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:34:10 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-72-72.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3445136361197754383; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:33:03 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17169 Archived-At: This part of the doc string makes no sense and should be removed: "(but we recommend using `apropos-variable' instead)" 1. `apropos-variable' cannot be used to customize options. 2. "We recommend" is not appropriate language here - who is "we"?. Explain the pros and cons or say nothing about it. In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/gnuwin32/include'