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bug#38601: describe-mode never says the most important thing
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Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#38601: describe-mode never says the most important thing |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Apr 2021 11:43:02 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
tags 38601 notabug
close 38601
thanks
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>> <jidanni@jidanni.org>
>> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:29:31 +0800
>>
>> ^L
>> Electric-Indent minor mode (no indicator):
>> Toggle on-the-fly reindentation (Electric Indent mode).
>> With a prefix argument ARG, enable Electric Indent mode if ARG is
>> positive, and disable it otherwise. If called from Lisp, enable
>> the mode if ARG is omitted or nil.
>>
>> When enabled, this reindents whenever the hook ‘electric-indent-functions’
>> returns non-nil, or if you insert a character from ‘electric-indent-chars’.
>>
>> This is a global minor mode. To toggle the mode in a single buffer,
>> use ‘electric-indent-local-mode’.
>> ^L
>>
>> The problem is, it doesn't mention how to turn it on and off!
>
> Actually, it does: that's the last sentence above.
>
>> The user has to click on each line right after an ^L, to learn that he
>> simply needs to do e.g.,
>>
>> (electric-indent-mode &optional ARG)
>
> That's not a user command, that's a Lisp way of doing this stuff, and
> therefore doesn't have to be anywhere near the beginning of the help
> text.
>
> So I think we should close this as a non-b ug.
OK, closing.
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