Subject: bug#42400: closed (Re: bug#42400: 26.3; doc of `kill-emacs' optional ARG)

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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:56:02 +0000

Your bug report

#42400: 26.3; doc of `kill-emacs' optional ARG

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#42400: 26.3; doc of `kill-emacs' optional ARG
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:55:17 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 19:34:40 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:25:55 -0700 (PDT), Drew Adams <[email-masked]> said:
> 
>     Drew> Both the Emacs and Elisp manuals describe the behavior of ARG as an
>     Drew> integer or a string.  But what about anything else?
> 
>     Drew> In `startup.el', `edt-mapper.el', and `tpu-edt.el', for example, we find
>     Drew> (kill-emacs t).  How is someone to understand this code?
> 
> Itʼs equivalent to exit'ing with EXIT_SUCCESS, without having to worry
> about the value of '0' on your platform :-) Not sure how weʼd express
> that in the docstring.

I've documented it now, thanks.

Subject: 26.3; doc of `kill-emacs' optional ARG
From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:25:55 -0700 (PDT)
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Both the Emacs and Elisp manuals describe the behavior of ARG as an
integer or a string.  But what about anything else?

In `startup.el', `edt-mapper.el', and `tpu-edt.el', for example, we find
(kill-emacs t).  How is someone to understand this code?

In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2019-08-29
Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.18362
Configured using:
 `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''