From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: syntax highlighting Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:01:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87d28m1usd.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <20141116220147423535443@bob.proulx.com> <20141117125312.1c835e6e@freedom-laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416236588 21888 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2014 15:03:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:03:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 16:03:01 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XqNpS-00057E-Ft for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:02:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48299 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqNpS-0004CY-5O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:02:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54227) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqNoN-0002o5-73 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:01:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqNoF-00034q-Om for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:01:51 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58271) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqNoF-00034f-JB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:01:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XqNoD-0004Qs-AR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:01:41 +0100 Original-Received: from 167-88-26-132.cpe.teksavvy.com ([167.88.26.132]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:01:41 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 167-88-26-132.cpe.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:01:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 167-88-26-132.cpe.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ppmFIMW0iVQrbT7Xhqs7tSf2a5c= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100991 Archived-At: > That docstring, and all the others describing minor mode > (de)activation commands are somewhat ambiguous to me, because, as in > math literature, "positive" could or not include the number '0', > depending on author's definition. For that reason, I recommend to use -1 and 1 to mean respectively "off" and "on". Stefan