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Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 6bd9d69: Fix documentation of 'global-disable


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 6bd9d69: Fix documentation of 'global-disable-point-adjustment'
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 05:27:30 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:13:36 -0500
> 
> >> Why did you replace "sets" with "binds"?
> > Because that's how I tend to think about the act of giving a value to
> > a variable in Emacs Lisp.
> 
> OK.  To me, the fact that disable-point-adjustment needs to be setq'd by
> the command rather than let-bound is an important point (I'd expect this
> to surprise many coders since the usual way for a command to affect the
> behavior of Emacs "for this command only" is to let-bind a variable), so
> I find the new wording to encourage confusion rather than trying to
> avoid it.

If this is confusing, I will changing it back.  What do others think?



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