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

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 19:34:40 +0200

>>>>> 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.

Robert