From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: 42400@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42400: 26.3; doc of `kill-emacs' optional ARG
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:58:49 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a49ab900-78ae-46e4-bdb8-ebc066a5039f@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2mu3zqs7j.fsf@gmail.com>
> Drew> Both the Emacs and Elisp manuals describe the behavior of ARG
> as an
> Drew> integer or a string. But what about anything else?
>
> Drew> In `startup.el', `edt-mapper.el', and `tpu-edt.el', for
> example, we find
> Drew> (kill-emacs t). How is someone to understand this code?
>
> Itʼs equivalent to exit'ing with EXIT_SUCCESS, without having to worry
> about the value of '0' on your platform :-) Not sure how weʼd express
> that in the docstring.
Maybe just like that? Is this true only for `t',
or is it true for any non-string, non-number value?
However we say it, I think it should be doc'd. Thx.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-16 15:25 bug#42400: 26.3; doc of `kill-emacs' optional ARG Drew Adams
2020-07-16 17:34 ` Robert Pluim
2020-07-16 17:58 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-07-17 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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