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bug#25357: 25.1; Doc for `cursor-sensor-mode' (and modes generally)


From: npostavs
Subject: bug#25357: 25.1; Doc for `cursor-sensor-mode' (and modes generally)
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 22:58:09 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
> Thanks.  Some minor comments.  If they help, fine; if not, ignore.
> One not-so-minor comment, flagged by ** (in two places).

Thanks, that was helpful.

>
> ** How so, "again"?  Here we are telling someone how to turn it
> on interactively.  I think we should also tell them how to do it
> using Lisp.

This is a subjective thing of course.  I guess it seems obvious to me
that a command can be called as a function, and it's explained in
`(elisp) What Is a Function'.  Adding cross references to that in every
place we talk about invoking some command is just clutter.

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I'd suggest not to start a sentence with "And".  Instead, something
> like this should be better:
>
>   @dfn{major modes}, which ...; and @dfn {minor modes}, which ...

Fixed this too.

Attachment: v2-0001-Clarify-major-mode-switching.patch
Description: patch


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