GNU bug report logs - #10503
24.0.92; doc string of `echo-keystrokes' is missing important info

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:20:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.92

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.0.92; doc string of `echo-keystrokes' is missing important info
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:18:24 -0800

The doc string MUST, like the manuals, say what a zero value means.
Otherwise users will wonder why echoing doesn't happen in some context
or how to turn off echoing.
 
This is what the Elisp manual says:
 
"If the value is zero, then command input is not echoed."
 
And this is what the Emacs manual says:
 
"... or zero, meaning don't echo at all."

In GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-01-05 on MARVIN
 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --cflags
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include --ldflags
 -LD:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/lib'
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Message #8 received at 10503 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 10503 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10503: 24.0.92;
	doc string of `echo-keystrokes' is missing important info
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:09:38 +0800

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> The doc string MUST, like the manuals, say what a zero value means.
> Otherwise users will wonder why echoing doesn't happen in some context
> or how to turn off echoing.

Fixed, thanks.
bug closed, send any further explanations to 10503 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> Request was from Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:11:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:24:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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