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Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have
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Robert Pluim |
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Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have |
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Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:34:14 +0200 |
>>>>> On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:13:27 +0200, Andreas Röhler
>>>>> <andreas.roehler@online.de> said:
>> Is this something missing in Emacs, or is it that some documentation
>> strings donʼt tell you this? If the latter, point them out and we'll
>> try to fix them.
>>
>> Robert
Andreas> Well, it happens from time to time... Let's search for some
example though:
Andreas> in ange-ftp.el
Andreas> defun ange-ftp-dired-compress-file (name)
Andreas> it's not told if "name" should be delivered as string are just a
Andreas> (quoted?) symbol.
I think emacs always uses strings when naming files.
Andreas> defun ange-ftp-load (file &optional noerror nomessage nosuffix)
Andreas> Assume the optional args must be boolean, but not hint so far.
Hmm yes, but I think thatʼs an internal function, so not too
surprising.
Andreas> If you grep for "&rest args", should appear some stuff where it's
not
Andreas> told what kind of args are expected.
Andreas> For example in widget.el
Andreas> (defun define-widget (name class doc &rest args)
Are here it depends very much on which widget youʼre using, so itʼs
hard to specify in the docstring.
Robert
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