Re: sit-for arg old-nodisp not documented

2005-07-31 Thread Richard M. Stallman
`sit-for' has an argument old-nodisp that is not described in the doc string. We often don't document an argument that we don't encourage people to use. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ema

Re: sit-for arg old-nodisp not documented

2005-07-31 Thread Lennart Borgman
Juanma Barranquero wrote: On 7/31/05, Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just meant that the old declaration could perhaps be an implicit description. I don't understand. Just say what changes would you do to the docstring, and if they're good, by all means commit them. I

Re: sit-for arg old-nodisp not documented

2005-07-31 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 7/31/05, Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just meant that the old declaration could perhaps be an implicit > description. I don't understand. Just say what changes would you do to the docstring, and if they're good, by all means commit them. -- /L/e/k/t/u

Re: sit-for arg old-nodisp not documented

2005-07-31 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 7/31/05, Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, I did see that (though I am a lousy reader) but OLD-NODISP is > still not mentioned. It is not mentioned because it is not OLD-NODISP. It is NODISP, when using the old profile. > An easy way to fix this particular problem would > p

Re: sit-for arg old-nodisp not documented

2005-07-31 Thread Lennart Borgman
Juanma Barranquero wrote: An easy way to fix this particular problem would perhaps be to just change the description of the old format (since that is just a part of the doc string I assume): - (old): (sit-for SECONDS &optional MILLISECONDS OLD-NODISP) That would not help argument highli

Re: sit-for arg old-nodisp not documented

2005-07-31 Thread Lennart Borgman
Juanma Barranquero wrote: `sit-for' has an argument old-nodisp that is not described in the doc string. Not exactly. If you read it again carefully, you'll notice `sit-for' has two modes of invocation: - (modern): (sit-for SECONDS &optional NODISP) - (old): (sit-for SECONDS &optional

Re: sit-for arg old-nodisp not documented

2005-07-31 Thread Juanma Barranquero
> `sit-for' has an argument old-nodisp that is not described in the doc > string. Not exactly. If you read it again carefully, you'll notice `sit-for' has two modes of invocation: - (modern): (sit-for SECONDS &optional NODISP) - (old): (sit-for SECONDS &optional MILLISECONDS NODISP) So the