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company-dabbrev variable documentation

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Message #23 received at 56870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Matt Armstrong <matt <at> rfc20.org>
Cc: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>, 56870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 12:20:41 +0200

Matt Armstrong <matt <at> rfc20.org> writes:

> b) When lisp level interfaces expect strings they generally say so, and
> the examples use quotes like "this".
>
> c) A bare all (without any quotes at all), is just a word, and not
> a Lisp level function or variable.

So I don't think there's anything to fix in Emacs here -- we sometimes
say "the symbol `all'" if there's an unusual amount of possible
confusion present -- and I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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