Re: Why can't I turn off scroll bars?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> "With a numeric argument, if the argument is positive
>> >> turn on scroll bars; otherwise turn off scroll bars."
>> >
>> > (And 0 is not a positive number.)
>>
>> So there is a documentation error in define-minor-mode.
>
> Is there?  Please be specific. Which part of the doc is erroneous, and how?
>
> I just looked at the doc for `define-minor-mode', both the Elisp manual and 
> the
> doc string.  I do not see where it suggests that 0 is a positive number - or
> anything like that.  Rather than expecting people to spend time searching for
> what you might mean, please point specifically to the problem text.  Thx.


Ah, you are right. define-minor-mode does not add this part of the doc
string (yet).

I suggested that it should but we have not made that change yet.