From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: John Shahid <jvshahid@gmail.com>
Cc: 10754@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10754: define-minor-mode and doc of derived mode
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:55:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlgb99lak.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efh1xngb.fsf@gmail.com> (John Shahid's message of "Wed, 20 Jun 2018 19:33:24 +0000")
>> I think in the long term (asymptotically), the arg is unneeded.
>> But if we add the arg, the long term will be that *all* calls will use
>> the arg, so we'll never be able to get rid of it.
> I'm worried about minor modes that don't even mention the argument.
I suspect that it's a misfeature which would be fixed by always adding
that paragraph.
> Not sure if that should be a concern since they should be documenting the
> ARG in the first place.
Exactly.
> I can provide examples, but the Emacs codebase has a few of those.
The only problematic case would be if adding this paragraph would be harmful.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-20 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-07 18:02 bug#10754: define-minor-mode and doc of derived mode Glenn Morris
2012-02-07 20:27 ` Glenn Morris
2018-06-07 11:20 ` John Shahid
2018-06-07 13:46 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-08 2:25 ` John Shahid
2018-06-08 21:45 ` John Shahid
2018-06-16 10:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 17:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 15:55 ` John Shahid
2018-06-17 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 19:45 ` John Shahid
2018-06-17 21:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 23:19 ` John Shahid
2018-06-18 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-20 19:33 ` John Shahid
2018-06-20 21:55 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-06-27 21:26 ` John Shahid
2018-06-27 21:31 ` John Shahid
2018-06-29 1:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-29 13:45 ` John Shahid
2018-06-29 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-29 14:52 ` John Shahid
2018-06-29 15:12 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-29 15:48 ` John Shahid
2018-06-30 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-30 20:44 ` John Shahid
2018-07-02 3:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-30 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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