From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lisp/generic.el patch. Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:37:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87y8co96uz.fsf@xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110991984 15292 80.91.229.2 (16 Mar 2005 16:53:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:53:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lute Kamstra , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 17:53:03 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBbaG-0007Hr-2y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:41:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBbqM-0005Du-4K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:58:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DBbpl-0005Az-6J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:57:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DBbpd-000575-JR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:57:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBbpd-00055E-16 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:57:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DBbWk-0005Nj-Va for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:37:47 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DBbWJ-0004nL-OF; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:37:20 -0500 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:22:12 -0500") 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34636 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34636 Richard Stallman writes: > Thanks very much for making etc/TODO smaller. > I have one minor criticism: > > (defcustom generic-use-find-file-hook t > ! "*If non-nil, add a hook to enter `default-generic-mode' automatically. > > That doc string should say > > (defcustom generic-use-find-file-hook t > ! "*If non-nil, add a hook to enter Default-Generic mode automatically. > > because the convention for referring to modes in English text > is to use the mode's name in English, rather than a Lisp symbol name. > > There are some other doc strings and comments that need a like change. In this case, I'd prefer to have (defcustom generic-use-find-file-hook t ! "*If non-nil, add a hook to call `default-generic-mode' automatically. The main rationale is that this will give a working cross reference link in the help window. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum