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bug#22313: 24.3; on global-font-lock-mode's documentation
From: |
Daniel Bastos |
Subject: |
bug#22313: 24.3; on global-font-lock-mode's documentation |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:17:35 -0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: dbastos@toledo.com
>> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 15:39:36 -0200
>>
>> I ran emacs -Q and so font-lock-mode came up enabled. Good. I then ran
>>
>> (global-font-lock-mode nil)
>>
>> and it did turn off. Looking at the documentation, I read the passage
>> below. It makes me think that the argument of nil, since that's not
>> positive, would disable font-lock-mode, but it doesn't. The function
>> really needs a negative argument. The documentation should be fixed.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand which part of the documentation needs
> fixing. Can you clarify?
>
> This part:
>
>> If called from Lisp, enable the mode if ARG is omitted or nil.
>
> clearly says that calling the function with nil as its argument
> _enables_ the mode, not disables it.
>
> As for being not positive, nil is not a number, so its sign is really
> undefined, I think.
I'm really sorry. I didn't pay enough attention. For what it's worth,
I suppose the "otherwise" threw me off completely and the following
sentences didn't take effect in my brain. I'm sorry.