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Re: defcustom and the stars.
From: |
Michaël Cadilhac |
Subject: |
Re: defcustom and the stars. |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:36:49 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Michael,
>
>> Please, do not remove me from the list of Cc as I don't scrupulously
>> read Emacs Devel usually.
>
> OK; sorry about that. I know I don't like getting two copies of everything,
> so I tend to think others too might want just the list copy. I realize this
> is an incorrect assumption.
In fact, I read e-devel through GMane and quickly kill the threads
I take part in.
>> > Yes. Here is a doc string I have, for instance.
>> > "**Completions* window is removed if fewer chars than this are input."
>>
>> I don't see your point. Maybe this has been discussed with Juanma, but
>> what's the harm removing the first * ?
>
> The doc string that the user sees then reads "Completions* window...", which
> is not good - the text should say *Completions*.
There must be a misunderstanding here.
(defvar foo nil "**scratch* me I'm famous.")
with the change I proposed now shows
,----[ C-h v foo RET ]
| foo is a variable defined in `~/etc/emacs.d/gnus/News/drafts/drafts/13'.
| Its value is nil
|
|
| Documentation:
| *scratch* me I'm famous.
|
| You can change this variable using `set-variable'.
`----
Only "^\*" is deleted, not "^\**".
>> > Why not just leave any extra `*' there?
>>
>> Because it's confusing and somewhat useless for the user.
>
> The user doesn't see the first `*'. How is it confusing to the user?
Okey, there must be another strong misunderstanding here :-)
$ emacs -Q
C-h v show-paren-highlight-openparen RET
,----[ C-h v show-paren-highlight-openparen RET ]
| show-paren-highlight-openparen is a variable defined in `paren.el'.
| Its value is t
|
|
| Documentation:
| *Non-nil turns on openparen highlighting when matching forward.
`----
^ Here, there's the useless star. And the user sees it.
>> What about « You can change this variable using `set-variable' » with
>> a link on « change » ?
>
> Yes, that's OK by me.
> (<nitpick>Though it's really the value that is changed...</nitpick>)
« You can change variable's value using `set-variable' » ?
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- Re: defcustom and the stars., (continued)
- Re: defcustom and the stars., Michaël Cadilhac, 2007/01/08
- Re: defcustom and the stars., Chris Moore, 2007/01/08
- RE: defcustom and the stars., Drew Adams, 2007/01/08
- Re: defcustom and the stars., Chris Moore, 2007/01/09
- RE: defcustom and the stars., Drew Adams, 2007/01/09
- Re: defcustom and the stars., Chris Moore, 2007/01/10
- RE: defcustom and the stars., Drew Adams, 2007/01/10
- Re: defcustom and the stars., Chris Moore, 2007/01/10
- RE: defcustom and the stars., Drew Adams, 2007/01/10
- RE: defcustom and the stars., Drew Adams, 2007/01/08
- Re: defcustom and the stars.,
Michaël Cadilhac <=
- RE: defcustom and the stars., Drew Adams, 2007/01/05
- Re: defcustom and the stars., Richard Stallman, 2007/01/04
- Re: defcustom and the stars., Eli Zaretskii, 2007/01/03
- Re: defcustom and the stars., Juanma Barranquero, 2007/01/03
- Re: defcustom and the stars., Richard Stallman, 2007/01/03
- RE: defcustom and the stars., Drew Adams, 2007/01/04
- Re: defcustom and the stars., Juanma Barranquero, 2007/01/04
- RE: defcustom and the stars., Drew Adams, 2007/01/04
- Re: defcustom and the stars., Juanma Barranquero, 2007/01/04
- RE: defcustom and the stars., Drew Adams, 2007/01/04