From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound' Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d07ms7xu.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="6897"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 41026@debbugs.gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 03 05:49:08 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5co-0001g1-RX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 05:49:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54144 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5cn-0005QR-TF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:49:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Xu-0006ee-LA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:44:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42888) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Xu-0006uq-An for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:44:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Xu-0006OC-9D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:44:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 03:44:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41026 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 41026-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41026.158847741724519 (code B ref 41026); Sun, 03 May 2020 03:44:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41026) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 May 2020 03:43:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54434 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5XV-0006NP-Cj for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34358) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5XT-0006ND-Jq for 41026@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5XO-0006YD-7b; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5XM-0001jC-CN; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d07ms7xu.fsf@igel.home> (message from Andreas Schwab on Sat, 02 May 2020 16:55:09 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:179567 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > + doc: /* Make variable SYMBOL's value be void. > What's a variable symbol? That is a grammatical misparsing. That sentence does not talk about a "variable symbol". It talks about a variable, and SYMBOL stands for that variable. It is like "the buffer BUF". Would it be clearer to say "Make the variable VAR's value be void" and call the argument 'var'? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)