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bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation
From: |
uzibalqa |
Subject: |
bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:32:00 +0000 |
------- Original Message -------
On Monday, August 1st, 2022 at 9:24 PM, Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org> wrote:
> 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!
It is a shame that documentation does not come with example. It is what is
much lacking.
- bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation, uzibalqa, 2022/08/01
- bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation, Matt Armstrong, 2022/08/01
- bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/02
- 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
- Message not available
- bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation, carlmarcos, 2022/08/04