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] emacs-25 6bd9d69: Fix documentation of 'global-disable-point-adjustment' Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:45:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20160222173059.20603.67344@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83k2lwk0er.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456173971 11189 80.91.229.3 (22 Feb 2016 20:46:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:46:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 22 21:46:02 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1aXxMn-0006y9-0H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:46:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51843 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXxMm-0007rH-6x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:46:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48313) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXxMY-0007o2-Du for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:45:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXxMU-0005qF-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:45:46 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:38230) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXxMU-0005q7-66; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:45:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.DIT.UMontreal.CA (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id u1MKjpOM016197; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:45:52 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7E4ECAE48B; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:45:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83k2lwk0er.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:30:52 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5589=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <5589> : inlines <4371> : streams <1591838> : uri <2148800> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200495 Archived-At: >> > +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