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bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation
From: |
Matt Armstrong |
Subject: |
bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Aug 2022 14:24:14 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me> writes:
> I am setting company-dabbrev variables
>
> (setq company-dabbrev-other-buffers 'all)
> (setq company-dabbrev-ignore-case 'keep-prefix)
>
> The documentation for the variables, says
>
> If ‘all’, search all other buffers, except the ignored ones.
>
> I find the documentation confusing because nowhere does it say that on
> should use 'all rather than all or "all".
I can understand your confusion.
When working at the level of Emacs Lisp, keep a few things in mind:
a) Generally, in Emacs Lisp help, if you see something like ‘all’ it
means a lisp level symbol. This could be a function name, variable, or
some other symbol. This is part of the project's conventions, described
here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Documentation-Tips.html
b) When lisp level interfaces expect strings they generally say so, and
the examples use quotes like "this".
c) A bare all (without any quotes at all), is just a word, and not
a Lisp level function or variable.
Hope that helps!
- bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation, uzibalqa, 2022/08/01
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- bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation, uzibalqa, 2022/08/02
- bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation, YE, 2022/08/03
- bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation, Matt Armstrong, 2022/08/03
- bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation, carlmarcos, 2022/08/03
- bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation, Matt Armstrong, 2022/08/04