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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Position Parameters" in lispref/frames.texi
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:30:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JH3Hn-0004Mx-GA@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mwbq7fvrgq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:32:21 -0500)

	 The value may be a positive number POS, or a list of the form `(+
	 POS)' which permits specifying a negative POS value.

    What? (+ POS) permits a negative POS value?

Yes.  There are actually two "signs" to specify here:
which edge to count from, and which direction to count in.
A positive number positions the frame left from the screen left.
(+ POSITION) positions the frame left from the screen left,
a and POSITION may be negative.

A negative number positions the frame right edge from the screem right.
(- POSITION) also positions the frame right edge from the screem right,
and allows POSITION to be negative.

    I propose just removing these confusing parts. It reads much better
    without them.

If it is confusing, we should clean it up, but just discarding
this information is not a solution.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-21 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-21  2:32 "Position Parameters" in lispref/frames.texi Glenn Morris
2008-01-21  2:44 ` Glenn Morris
2008-01-21  9:32   ` martin rudalics
2008-01-22  5:50     ` Ulrich Neumerkel
2008-01-22  6:34       ` Glenn Morris
2008-01-22  6:37         ` Ulrich Neumerkel
2008-01-22 11:30     ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-21 20:30   ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-21 20:30 ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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