From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Non-nil means" versus "On means" in docstrings Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:43:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: <31729.1130452199@olgas.newt.com> <43632BD1.3020505@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130622284 9547 80.91.229.2 (29 Oct 2005 21:44:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:44:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , wohler@newt.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 29 23:44:36 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVyV4-0007aL-RD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:44:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVyV3-0005y2-9w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:44:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVyUm-0005xL-Nd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:44:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVyUj-0005vg-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:44:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVyUj-0005vT-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:44:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.235] (helo=pfepa.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EVyUf-00043R-8Y; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:44:05 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id AE13947FE05; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:43:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:33:31 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:45112 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > One way of doing it might be to keep "non-nil" in the doc strings but > make it a link to an explanation. Like it would have been done on a web > page. > > That would definitely be an improvement, and maybe it would only > require changes in Custom, not in thousands of defcustoms. > So it is a candidate. > > Let's see what other ideas people suggest. A tooltip rather than a link perhaps? Or custom could reformat the doc string to say "On" rather than non-nil. But what about all those boolean variables which are not named -flag ? This need a good design and perhaps quite some changes, so let it wait until after the release. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk