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bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) can
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martin rudalics |
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bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates |
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Sat, 09 Mar 2019 14:16:11 +0100 |
> Those other-* function also need to allow the user to specify a count,
> something that we don't have to do here. So there's no reason to
> expect consistency here. (I do think it would be good to allow the
> user to control the last argument of other-window and other-frame as
> well, if that's possible, but the solution doesn't have to be
> identical to what we do with delete-windows-on.)
It would be confusing if it weren't.
>> > • It may be a string; its contents are a sequence of elements
>> > separated by newlines, one for each argument(1). Each element
>> > consists of a code character (*note Interactive Codes::) optionally
>> > followed by a prompt (which some code characters use and some
>> > ignore). Here is an example:
>> >
>> > (interactive "P\nbFrobnicate buffer: ")
>> >
>> > The code letter ‘P’ sets the command’s first argument to the raw
>> > command prefix (*note Prefix Command Arguments::). ‘bFrobnicate
>> > buffer: ’ prompts the user with ‘Frobnicate buffer: ’ to enter the
>> > name of an existing buffer, which becomes the second and final
>> > argument.
>>
>> That text is all right and yet was incomprehensible for me at first
>> (and second) reading. It's probably just me, so ignore that.
>
> Maybe we should improve it. But I cannot tell how, because "a
> sequence of elements separated by newlines, one for each argument" is
> very clear for me. If you can tell what was incomprehensible in that,
> maybe we will be able to come up with an improvement.
The text is too perfect with two cross references, a footnote and an
example with a hacker idiom. Not a single redundancy, not a word to
miss. Probably too terse for me.
martin
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, (continued)
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/08
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, martin rudalics, 2019/03/08
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/08
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, martin rudalics, 2019/03/08
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, Drew Adams, 2019/03/08
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, martin rudalics, 2019/03/09
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, Drew Adams, 2019/03/09
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/08
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, martin rudalics, 2019/03/09
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/09
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates,
martin rudalics <=
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, Drew Adams, 2019/03/09
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/09
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, Drew Adams, 2019/03/09
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/09
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, Drew Adams, 2019/03/09
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, martin rudalics, 2019/03/10
- bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, martin rudalics, 2019/03/10
bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/08