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bug#3639: 23.0.95; defcustom docstring ':link' ':tag' NAME and/or LABEL?
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#3639: 23.0.95; defcustom docstring ':link' ':tag' NAME and/or LABEL? |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:21:59 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com> writes:
> The docstring for defcustom's keyword `:link' states:
>
> "You can specify the text to use in the customization buffer by adding `:tag
> NAME' after the first element of the LINK-DATA; for example, (info-link :tag
> "foo" "(emacs)Top") makes a link to the Emacs manual which appears in the
> buffer as `foo'."
>
> Shortly thereafter a description of defcustom's keyword `:tag' states:
>
> ":tag LABEL Use LABEL, a string, instead of the item's name, to label the item
> in customization menus and buffers."
>
> If these two uses of 'tag' have identical context, then the `:tag NAME'
> descriptor of the `:link' section should clarify this and/or change 'NAME' ->
> 'LABEL'.
>
> If the context of 'tag' is mutually exclusive then _that_ should
> be clarified. As presented, it is not clear if `:tag' has different meanings
> within defcustom forms according to where it occurs.
The first talks about using :tag inside `info-link'. The second about
using :tag in the `defcustom' top-level. It seems pretty clear to me,
and I know next to nothing about `defcustom', so I think this doesn't
need clarification.
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- bug#3639: 23.0.95; defcustom docstring ':link' ':tag' NAME and/or LABEL?,
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