From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: remove hardcoded defaults values from docstrings
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:37:01 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738syrtsy.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ppw275hs.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi>
Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 04 2013, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> I realize this already got pushed, but to me this seems like a
>> reversion for the 95% of users who haven't customized
>> notmuch-archive-tags and just want to know that archiving means
>> removing the inbox tag. Why is this less confusing? Users who have
>> customized notmuch-archive-tags will probably know that the "default"
>> doesn't apply to them.
As a side note, this kind of thing is why I started a texinfo manual; I
don't really think reading docstrings is the best intro for a new user.
> Can we have both -- i.e. something like (default: "-inbox") in the
> docstring. When entering c-h f notmuch-show-archive-thread
> The `notmuch-archive-tags' in text is a hyperlink to the documentation
> of notmuch-archive-tags (which shows its current value)...
I don't really mind Tomi's suggestion, although in practice I think
following the hyperlink is also not so burdensome. I mainly didn't like
the places it mentioned "inbox" without mentioning the variable that
really controls it.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-04 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-02 14:04 [PATCH] emacs: remove hardcoded defaults values from docstrings david
2013-06-02 14:29 ` [PATCH] emacs: add `notmuch-archive-tags' cross references in docstrings david
2013-06-02 14:32 ` [PATCH] emacs: remove hardcoded defaults values from docstrings Tomi Ollila
2013-06-02 17:47 ` Mark Walters
2013-06-03 0:03 ` David Bremner
2013-06-04 4:01 ` Austin Clements
2013-06-04 6:30 ` Tomi Ollila
2013-06-04 11:37 ` David Bremner [this message]
2013-06-04 13:37 ` Austin Clements
2013-06-04 14:22 ` David Bremner
2013-06-05 6:05 ` Tomi Ollila
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