From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 6bd9d69: Fix documentation of 'global-disable-point-adjustment'
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:13:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva8msjvvj.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83io1gjwlp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:53:06 +0200")
>> To me the difference between "sets" and "binds" is that the former
>> clearly means "setq" while the other can either mean "change it from
>> unbound to bound" or "let-binds".
>> So, I find "binds" to be less precise than "sets", hence my question:
>> Why did you replace "sets" with "binds"?
> Because that's how I tend to think about the act of giving a value to
> a variable in Emacs Lisp.
OK. To me, the fact that disable-point-adjustment needs to be setq'd by
the command rather than let-bound is an important point (I'd expect this
to surprise many coders since the usual way for a command to affect the
behavior of Emacs "for this command only" is to let-bind a variable), so
I find the new wording to encourage confusion rather than trying to
avoid it.
But clearly you have a different opinion, and I honestly can't claim to
know better, especially when it comes to writing docs, so I'll shut up
now,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-22 21:13 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20160222173059.20603.67344@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <E1aXuK3-0005Mz-Ua@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2016-02-22 18:50 ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 6bd9d69: Fix documentation of 'global-disable-point-adjustment' Stefan Monnier
2016-02-22 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-22 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-22 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-22 21:13 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-02-23 3:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-23 3:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-23 4:16 ` Kaushal Modi
[not found] ` <<83fuwkjecd.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-02-23 7:10 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-23 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
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