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bug#14305: 23.4; doc string of `frame-visible-p'


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#14305: 23.4; doc string of `frame-visible-p'
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 03:03:19 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> This makes it sound like "iconified" is something different from
> "minimized":
>
>   Return the symbol `icon' if FRAME is iconified or "minimized".
>
> To imply that minimized means the same thing as iconified, you need a
> comma after "iconified" (or put "'minimized'" in parens):
>
>   Return the symbol `icon' if FRAME is iconified, or minimized.
>
>   Return the symbol `icon' if FRAME is iconified (minimized).

Well, are they the same thing?  

> The second is clearer, not requiring readers to notice the comma and
> recognize how it changes parsing of the sentence.
>
> And you can remove the quotes around "visible", "minimized", and
> "taskbar".

Even if a frame is obscured by other frames (and is therefore not
visible), I think this function will still say that it is "visible".  So
I think the sneer quotes are correct here.  Closing.

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