GNU bug report logs - #25428
25.1; Incorrect doc string for `delete-selection-mode'

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:26:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 13926, 25434, 25435

Found in versions 24.3.50, 25.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 25428 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com (N. Jackson)
Cc: 25428 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#25428: 25.1; Incorrect doc string for `delete-selection-mode'
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:24:15 -0400

nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com (N. Jackson) writes:

> [Temporary minor rant: Personally it seems absurd to me that a
> `nil' argument doesn't turn a minor mode off; and that calling the
> minor mode function with no argument doesn't toggle it. But that
> is all history of course.]

There is a good reason to have it like that: it allows doing

    (add-hook 'some-hook #'the-minor-mode)

Rather than having to do

    (add-hook 'some-hook (lambda () (the-minor-mode +1)))

or

    (defun turn-on-the-minor-mode () (the-minor-mode +1))
    (add-hook 'some-hook #'turn-on-the-minor-mode)
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