Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?

[Mauro Aranda]

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