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Re: Feature Request: Help: Display Relevant Bits First?
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Feature Request: Help: Display Relevant Bits First? |
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Sun, 03 Apr 2022 13:54:17 +0200 |
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"T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
> And speaking of the boiler-plate, I have always found the sense in
> which -1 vs 1 is used in all the minor-mode toggle functions, where
> nil actually turns it on --that usage is too late to change. But could
> we perhaps alleviate the pain by adding two special values 'on and
> 'off so that (font-lock-mode 'on) turns it on and (font-lock-mode
> 'offf) turns it off?
I don't think adding further values here will help much with the
confusion, since there's code going back decades out there that uses the
old values, and that won't change.
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