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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 7291@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:36:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvocac299r.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <814E70A041AB4DC2A29E614DB19D2247@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:47:26 -0700")


Other than the "non-nil" part on the first line, I still don't know
what's ambiguous about the rest of the current docstring.
Your suggested wording sounds largely incomprehensible to me, so while
it may be better for some, it's clearly not good enough to replace the
current wording.

> Both parts of the story need to be presented clearly: (1) the code
> such as Tramp that conditionally disturbs the user (depending on the
> var value) and (2) the code such as Icomplete that binds the var
> during an operation that it does not want interrupted.

It's not that icomplete doesn't want an operation to be interrupted,
it's that it doesn't want this operation to disturb the user.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-29 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-27 22:30 bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible Drew Adams
2010-10-28  0:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-28 16:22   ` Drew Adams
2010-10-28 17:14     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-28 18:43       ` Michael Albinus
2010-10-28 18:51       ` Drew Adams
2010-10-28 20:12         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-28 21:58           ` Drew Adams
2010-10-29 16:20             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-29 16:47               ` Drew Adams
2010-10-29 17:36                 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-10-29  8:36           ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-29 16:03             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-29 16:21               ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-29 18:29               ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-29 23:00                 ` Andy Moreton
2010-10-30  6:52                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-30 16:16                     ` Drew Adams
2010-10-30 17:53                       ` Michael Albinus
2010-10-30 20:05                         ` Drew Adams
2010-10-29 18:56           ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-10-28 17:33 ` James Cloos
2010-10-28 18:53   ` Drew Adams
2011-07-14 14:35   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-31  2:34 ` MON KEY

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