GNU bug report logs - #15627
23.4; docstring for `mode-line-format' should link to default

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Samuel Bronson <naesten <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:52:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Found in version 23.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 15627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Samuel Bronson <naesten <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 15627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15627: 23.4;
 docstring for `mode-line-format' should link to default
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 23:48:25 -0400

Samuel Bronson wrote:

> Basically, this is a suggestion to include "`default-mode-line-format'"
> somewhere in the docstring, preferably near the top.

Why does it need to be mentioned at all?

C-h v default-mode-line-format

  This variable is obsolete since 23.2;
  use `mode-line-format' instead.

Documentation:
Default value of `mode-line-format' for buffers that don't override it.
This is the same as (default-value 'mode-line-format).
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 218 days ago.

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