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bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name
From: |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:04:49 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> It has not been fixed. You do not see it because `variable-at-point'
> (used by `describe-variable') compensates here. (Likewise,
> `symbol-at-point'.)
If these functions pick up the symbol as intended, I don't see what the
problem is.
> The buffer syntax should be that of Emacs Lisp.
It's not an Emacs Lisp buffer. It's a text buffer that may have some
Emacs Lisp symbols in it.
> Arbitrary functions that pick up (Lisp) symbol names should and will
> then pick up a `:' as part of a symbol name.
The arbitrary functions should use `symbol-at-point' or the like.
> Because of this, we should remove this colon, which is anyway
> unnecessary.
It looks nice. I'm closing this bug report.
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