From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro" <oitofelix@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Technically correct or conceptually easier?
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 21:24:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jKXXo-0007d1-6o@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftdlab7g.fsf@oitofelix.com> (message from Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro on Thu, 02 Apr 2020 17:23:31 -0300)
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> Non-nil means disregard read-only status of buffers or characters.
It follows that nil means don't disregard that.
In general, if
> Non-nil means do X
then nil means do things the usual way, and t means do X instead of
the usual way.
This practice makes hundreds of doc strings more succinct. I don't
think that making them longer would be an improvement.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-02 20:23 Technically correct or conceptually easier? Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
2020-04-02 21:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-04 2:09 ` chad
2020-04-10 14:00 ` Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
2020-04-04 1:24 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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