GNU bug report logs - #22683
25.1.50; auto-composition-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:47:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.1.50

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 22683 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 22683 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22683: 25.1.50; auto-composition-mode
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 21:54:26 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> CC: 22683 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:47:07 -0500
> 
> The words
> 
>   >   If called from Lisp,
>   > > enable the mode if ARG is omitted or nil.
> 
> seem to mean, "If the arg is omitted or nil, enable the mode;
> otherwise disable it."  I was surprised by the actual behavior.

Yes, the text is ambiguous.

> Does that text come from a macro?

No, it comes from the call to define-minor-mode.  Problem is, this is
a standard wording we have in more than 200 modes in Emacs.  If we
want to change that, we need to change all of them.
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