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Re: syntax highlighting
From: |
Emanuel Berg |
Subject: |
Re: syntax highlighting |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Nov 2014 03:10:06 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro <oitofelix@gnu.org>
writes:
> That docstring, and all the others describing minor
> mode (de)activation commands are somewhat ambiguous
> to me, because, as in math literature, "positive"
> could or not include the number '0', depending on
> author's definition. However, "strictly positive"
> always excludes zero, while "non-negative" always
> includes it. So, I think the latter would be a more
> appropriate term, instead of simply "positive".
Word!
While it is many times an advantage to have
multiple-purpose interfaces, for example
(member 'b '(a b c)) ; (b c) (1)
(member 'z '(a b c)) ; nil
instead of having (1) evaluate to `t' (for "yes, 'b is
a member"), when there *isn't* any second dimension to
it, I think it is much clearer to just focus on the
obvious usage and say exactly how to do it: "enable it
with `t', disable with `nil', with 1 it works, with -1
it blows up the computer, etc.".
> Ps: Emacs developers, please, take this as a bug
> report ;-)
Yeah, you wish. And me to. But report it the technical
way, it is as fast for you as to write this message.
--
underground experts united
- Re: syntax highlighting, (continued)
- Re: syntax highlighting, Bob Proulx, 2014/11/16
- Re: syntax highlighting, Emanuel Berg, 2014/11/16
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- Re: syntax highlighting, M P, 2014/11/16
- Re: syntax highlighting, Robert Thorpe, 2014/11/16
- Re: syntax highlighting, Bob Proulx, 2014/11/17
- Re: syntax highlighting, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro, 2014/11/17
- Re: syntax highlighting, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/17
- Re: syntax highlighting, Bob Proulx, 2014/11/17
- Re: syntax highlighting, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro, 2014/11/18
- Re: syntax highlighting, Bob Proulx, 2014/11/18
- Message not available
- Re: syntax highlighting,
Emanuel Berg <=
- Message not available
- Re: syntax highlighting, Emanuel Berg, 2014/11/17
Re: syntax highlighting, Robert Thorpe, 2014/11/16