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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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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