Re: "Non-nil means" versus "On means" in docstrings

[Kim F. Storm]

"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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