From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 2792@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2792: 23.0.90; doc string of switch-to-buffer
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:23:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtz5f7r24.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005e01c9ae52$e88a0340$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:39:06 -0700")
> Get rid of the word "WARNING" in the doc string. This is just helpful
> information, not a warning. Warnings are for things that are
> inherently dangerous.
It's inherently dangerous, in the sense that if I see a call to
`switch-to-buffer' in some Elisp code, I know it's a bug (the counter
examples are so rare they're not worth mentioning).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-27 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-26 20:39 bug#2792: 23.0.90; doc string of switch-to-buffer Drew Adams
2009-03-27 0:23 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-03-27 0:53 ` Drew Adams
2009-03-27 1:02 ` Drew Adams
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