Re: Lisp manual is incomplete w.r.t. mode-line-format

2005-06-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> It appears to still be true. But it is not just the Elisp manual that > fails to mention this and should be fixed. The `mode-line-format' > docstring does not mention it either. Is it intentional behavior? > Yes and no. It has to do SOMETHING in this case, but it must not > signa

Re: Lisp manual is incomplete w.r.t. mode-line-format

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Stallman
It appears to still be true. But it is not just the Elisp manual that fails to mention this and should be fixed. The `mode-line-format' docstring does not mention it either. Is it intentional behavior? Yes and no. It has to do SOMETHING in this case, but it must not signal an error

Re: Lisp manual is incomplete w.r.t. mode-line-format

2005-06-06 Thread Luc Teirlinck
Richard Stallman wrote: But the manual does not say anything about an unbound symbol in a (SYMBOL THEN [ELSE]) construct. Experiment shows that when SYMBOL is void the ELSE element is used, rather than ignoring the entire construct. Is that the correct behavior? It s

Re: Lisp manual is incomplete w.r.t. mode-line-format

2005-06-04 Thread Richard Stallman
But the manual does not say anything about an unbound symbol in a (SYMBOL THEN [ELSE]) construct. Experiment shows that when SYMBOL is void the ELSE element is used, rather than ignoring the entire construct. Is that the correct behavior? It should be documented. Could someone v