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Re: "Non-nil means" versus "On means" in docstrings
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: "Non-nil means" versus "On means" in docstrings |
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Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:43:10 +0200 |
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"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:
> One way of doing it might be to keep "non-nil" in the doc strings but
> make it a link to an explanation. Like it would have been done on a web
> page.
>
> That would definitely be an improvement, and maybe it would only
> require changes in Custom, not in thousands of defcustoms.
> So it is a candidate.
>
> Let's see what other ideas people suggest.
A tooltip rather than a link perhaps?
Or custom could reformat the doc string to say "On" rather than non-nil.
But what about all those boolean variables which are not named -flag ?
This need a good design and perhaps quite some changes, so let it wait
until after the release.
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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk