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Re: Documenting universal-async-argument


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Documenting universal-async-argument
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 19:27:53 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:06:29 +0200
> 
> > This command is about using threads, right?  So how about documenting
> > it somewhere under "Threads"?
> 
> It is about threads just now. But it could be also for other
> asynchronous command behavior, later on.

Do we really envision any other kind of asynchronicity in Emacs, any
time soon?  I'd be surprised.

> It is just a knob ("prefix command"), which tells the following command
> "If you know something about asynchronity, and if you care, be informed
> that the user wants you to run asynchronous".

universal-coding-system-argument is also "just a knob", and yet it is
described where coding-systems are.

But feel free to find a different place, mine is just one opinion, and
not a very strong one in this case.



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