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bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation
From: |
uzibalqa |
Subject: |
bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:55:51 +0000 |
------- Original Message -------
On Monday, August 1st, 2022 at 9:49 PM, Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org> wrote:
> uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me writes:
>
> > On Monday, August 1st, 2022 at 9:24 PM, Matt Armstrong matt@rfc20.org wrote:
> >
> > > Hope that helps!
> >
> > It is a shame that documentation does not come with example. It is
> > what is much lacking.
>
>
> I think the "friendly" way to customize Emacs is intended to be the
> customization system:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Easy-Customization.html
> In most cases, the customize interface hides lisp level details from the
> user.
>
> There is project level goal that most of the useful customizations a
> user can do in Emacs should be possible in the customize system, without
> using lisp. This is one reason the help text does not often describe
> things with Lisp examples. They would be of no use to the people using
> the Customize interface, and possibly even confusing.
There can be a verbosity flag that can be used to show lisp usage following
the description.
> I still think your original point is a good one. I found the one piece
> of documentation explaining how to write quoted things in Emacs
> documentation, but I could not find a place explaining the conventions
> for quoted things mean in Emacs help. Perhaps another person can find
> that, or suggest a way to explain it to new users.
Such conventions should be described in the starting part of the documentation
or in appendix.
- 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
- bug#56870: [PATCH] Re: bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation, YE, 2022/08/04
- bug#56870: [PATCH] Re: bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/04