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25.1.50; Document variable `deactivate-mark' in Elisp manual |
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Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:10:00 -0800 (PST) |
Subject line says it all. Only the function of the same name is
documented.
In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2015-12-10
Repository revision: 6148555ee5a3d0139ae517803718b3e0357933c7
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
'configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/snapshot/trunk --enable-checking=yes
--enable-check-lisp-object-type --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-Og
-ggdb3' LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib 'CPPFLAGS=-DGC_MCHECK=1
-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include''
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Re: bug#22314: 25.1.50; Document variable `deactivate-mark' in Elisp manual |
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Sat, 09 Jan 2016 08:49:05 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:29:42 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
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> > I see the same, but I don't understand why that is a problem. The
> > function and the variable are described one after the other, and 'i'
> > puts you on the first of them with the second clearly visible below.
> > How is that a problem? And how is it worse than having 2 identical
> > index entries instead, which point each one to a place several lines
> > apart?
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> It's wrong because it does not move point to the entry. Nothing
> indicates to a user that there in fact 3 entries, not 2.
The user's eyes should indicate that. You are splitting hair.
> I would not have filed this bug report if I thought that this
> was not a problem. And as you can see from my initial report,
> I in fact mistakenly thought that the variable was not even
> documented, because cycling among the index entries did not
> take me to it.
You should have read a bit more than a single line.
> I don't see why you wouldn't want to add an index entry for this
> variable. But if you don't feel like it then what can I say?
THERE IS ALREADY AN INDEX ENTRY FOR IT!!!!
How many times do I need to tell you that? Just look at the sources!
> If the Elisp manual had different indexes, as does the Emacs
> manual, then adding it would also let a user find it in the
> Variables Index.
The function is indexed as a function, the variable is indexed as a
variable. We have @defvar for the variable, which indexes the
variable, and a @defun for the function, which indexes the function.
> Maybe it's not possible to index both, if there is only one
> Index? Dunno. If you can't, you can't. If you can (maybe two
> entries, with suffixes "(variable)" and "(function)"), that's
> better, IMO.
Bug closed.
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