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 15:45:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlh6cjx0e.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k2lwk0er.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:30:52 +0200")
>> > +After a command is executed, if point moved into a region that has
>> > +special properties (e.g. composition, display), Emacs adjusts point to
>> > +the boundary of the region. But when a command binds this variable to
>> > +non-nil, this point adjustment is suppressed.
>>
>> Why did you replace "sets" with "binds"?
>> AFAIK let-binding this variable has no effect because the variable is
>> consulted only after the command finishes, i.e. after the binding has
>> been undone.
> Who said anything about let-binding?
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"?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-22 20:45 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 [this message]
2016-02-22 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-22 21:13 ` Stefan Monnier
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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