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Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?
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Mauro Aranda |
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Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual? |
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Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:48:27 -0300 |
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Bryce Carson <bovine@cyberscientist.ca> writes:
> In the section Defining New Widgets, the following quotation reveals a
> bug, I believe. I added emphasis for the last sentence of each
> description of the keywords. I believe that for the :value-to-external
> function, the last sentence is not supposed to be present.
>
> :value-to-internal Function to convert the value to the internal
> format. The function takes two arguments, a widget and an
> external value, and returns the internal value. The function is
> called on the present :value when the widget is created, and on
> any value set later with widget-value-set. :value-to-external
> Function to convert the value to the external format. The
> function takes two arguments, a widget and an internal value,
> and returns the external value. The function is called on the
> present :value when the widget is created, and on any value set
> later with widget-value-set.
>
> It looks like the author or editor of the descriptions coped them,
> which is fine. It doesn't make sense that :value-to-external would be
> called when the widget is created, nor when new values are set with
> widget-value-set.
>
> Other places in the manual state that the value of the :value keyword,
> when creating or defining widget, should be in the external form, more
> evidence that the last sentence is a bug.
Thanks. I filed a report at:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=64610
Please, if you find new bugs, report them with M-x report-emacs-bug
- Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?, (continued)
- Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?, Mauro Aranda, 2023/07/12
- Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?, Bryce, 2023/07/12
- Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?, Bryce Carson, 2023/07/14
- Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?, Bryce Carson, 2023/07/14
- Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?, Bryce Carson, 2023/07/14
- Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?, Bryce Carson, 2023/07/14
- Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?, Bryce Carson, 2023/07/14
- Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?, Mauro Aranda, 2023/07/14
- Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?, bovine, 2023/07/14
- Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?, Mauro Aranda, 2023/07/14
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