GNU bug report logs - #5215
23.1.50; blink-cursor-mode docstring

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:05:04 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5215: 23.1.50; blink-cursor-mode docstring
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:27:11 -0700

jidanni <at> jidanni.org wrote:
> One finds
> (custom-set-variables
>  '(blink-cursor-mode nil)...
> However
>   blink-cursor-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function in...
>   With a numeric argument, turn blinking cursor mode on if ARG is
>   positive,...

According to its doc string, custom-set-variables sets each SYMBOL's
value cell.  It does not call each SYBMOL's function cell.

Do you understand the difference between a variable and a function?

> But only numeric arguments are mentioned. And a quick peek in the Emacs
> Lisp manual doesn't say if nil is a numeric argument. Therefore the
> docstring of blink-cursor-mode should be beefed up perhaps.
> 
> Compare
>   size-indication-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function in...
>   With ARG, turn Size Indication mode on if ARG is positive...

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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