From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r99829: * help.el (describe-mode): Return nil (for IELM's sake). Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:55:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270475791 24737 80.91.229.12 (5 Apr 2010 13:56:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:56:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 05 15:56:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nymmq-0004dG-65 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:56:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33607 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nymmp-00027t-Q4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:56:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NymmK-0001xM-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52036 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NymmJ-0001wl-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NymmI-00077b-De for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:55:47 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:7144 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NymmI-00077U-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:55:46 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEANmIuUvO+K6K/2dsb2JhbACbS3K0YoUHBINAh2o X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.51,366,1267419600"; d="scan'208";a="60219686" Original-Received: from 206-248-174-138.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.174.138]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 05 Apr 2010 09:55:45 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4B9E78053; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:55:45 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:36:45 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123187 Archived-At: > * help.el (describe-mode): Return nil (for IELM's sake). [..] > - (princ (documentation major-mode)))))) > + (princ (documentation major-mode))))) > + nil) Here's a prime example of what I sent yesterday: if you think about it, the "for IELM's sake" part of the comment would be very welcome in the code, so that's where it should be instead of in the ChangeLog. Stefan