From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
Cc: 67053@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67053: 29.1; Doc string of variable `dired-use-ls-dired'
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 23:40:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB5488B7D9DF59AF4F772FCEFAF3AEA@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5rldzec.fsf@jeremybryant.net>
> Here are some thoughts to help explore a modification of the docstring.
>
> I observe the rest of the docstring mentions MS Windows explicitly, but
> maybe incomplete for your suggestion.
Yes, it mentions MS Windows. But that text is unrelated
to this bug, which is about the value that results from
checking for support of "--dired". It's not clear from
the doc that that result can be `unspecified'. The
wording suggests that the "check" clears up `unspecified',
replacing it, presumably, with either nil or some non-nil
value other than `unspecified'.
The special value of `unspecified' apparently does _not_
just mean that such a check is needed and will be done.
The value means that support isn't known, whether or
not the check has been done.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-10 20:41 bug#67053: 29.1; Doc string of variable `dired-use-ls-dired' Drew Adams
2023-11-10 21:38 ` Jeremy Bryant via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-10 23:40 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2023-11-11 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-11 4:48 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-11-11 5:53 ` Drew Adams
2023-11-11 6:43 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-11-11 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-11 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
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