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bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute? |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:33:12 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 09:02:50 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: 57499-done@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> So this call is already included in the previous one. Why should we
> >> tell users to add such a redundant call in their code?
> >
> > The new text doesn't say the call with FRAME = t should be an additional
> > call.
> >
>
> It doesn't say so explicitly indeed, but without reading the code of
> set-face-attribute everyone understands that it should be an additional
> call.
I disagree with your certainty that everyone will understand that.
The text deliberately doesn't say that.
> Would the patch below be okay? This would be another way to clarify the
> matter.
No. I don't want to lose this compatibility feature because lots of
people still use nil.
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/01
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/01
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/01
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/01
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/01
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/01
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/01
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/01
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/01
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/01
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/01
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/02
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/02
- bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/03