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bug#15239: 24.3.50; doc string of `fringe-styles'
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#15239: 24.3.50; doc string of `fringe-styles' |
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Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:40:54 -0800 |
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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Unless I'm missing something, this doc string seems wrong on several
> counts. And it is important because it is referred to by the doc of
> various fringe functions and variables, including `fringe-mode' itself.
>
> 1. The doc says that an alist element "has the form (NAME . WIDTH),
> where NAME is a mnemonic fringe mode name (a symbol)".
>
> Wrong. NAME is *NOT* a symbol. Presumably this wants instead to say
> that NAME is a symbol name. But why it would want to say that here
> is not clear anyway.
Fixed on trunk.
> 2. The doc says that "WIDTH is one of the following:" followed by this:
>
> "a cons cell (LEFT . RIGHT), where LEFT and RIGHT are respectively
> the left and right fringe widths in pixels, or nil (meaning to
> disable that fringe)."
>
> Wrong again. `nil' for LEFT or RIGHT does *NOT* mean to "disable
> that fringe". It means to "use the default width (8 pixels)", the
> same thing `nil' means as a non-cons value for WIDTH, but in this
> case only for "that fringe".
Fixed throughout the file.
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