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bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file'
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file' |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:22:54 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
> I've sent plenty of patches, throughout "all these years", as you know.
No, I do not think you've sent plenty of them. Especially not
docstring patches.
> If you need a patch to change `t' to `non-nil' then there is a problem.
You've overlooked the "and even install them yourself" part.
> But it's not the lack of a patch that prevents you from making this
> doc change, obviously. You do not _want_ to make it.
The docstring you quoted has a clear meaning of "undocumented behavior
for non-nil and non-t values". I do not know whether that was the
intention of the original author and do not care to figure it out, so no
I don't want to install such a patch. But if someone else wants to,
I won't oppose it.
> You apparently want a non-nil, non-t value to implicitly be considered
> unpredictable and unsupported ("you're on your own"), for the benefit
> of "future compatibility", and you apparently do not want to tell
> users that explicitly. So be it.
Saying this explicitly everywhere we rely on it would be silly.
It's a general rule that applies to all software I know.
Stefan
- bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', (continued)
bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Stefan Monnier, 2011/11/15
- bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Drew Adams, 2011/11/15
- bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Stefan Monnier, 2011/11/15
- bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Stefan Monnier, 2011/11/15
- bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Drew Adams, 2011/11/15
- bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Glenn Morris, 2011/11/15
- bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Drew Adams, 2011/11/16
- bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file',
Stefan Monnier <=
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- bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/16
- bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Drew Adams, 2011/11/16
- bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/16
- bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Drew Adams, 2011/11/16
bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Memnon Anon, 2011/11/16
bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/16
bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Juri Linkov, 2011/11/16
bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file', Drew Adams, 2011/11/16
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