Re: Feature Request: Help: Display Relevant Bits First?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:

> And speaking of the boiler-plate, I have always found the sense in
> which -1 vs 1 is used in all the minor-mode toggle functions, where
> nil actually turns it on --that usage is too late to change. But could
> we perhaps alleviate the pain by adding two special values 'on and
> 'off so that (font-lock-mode 'on) turns it on and (font-lock-mode
> 'offf) turns it off?

I don't think adding further values here will help much with the
confusion, since there's code going back decades out there that uses the
old values, and that won't change.

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