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bug#22313: 24.3; on global-font-lock-mode's documentation
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#22313: 24.3; on global-font-lock-mode's documentation |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:42:02 +0200 |
> From: dbastos@toledo.com
> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 15:39:36 -0200
>
> I ran emacs -Q and so font-lock-mode came up enabled. Good. I then ran
>
> (global-font-lock-mode nil)
>
> and it did turn off. Looking at the documentation, I read the passage
> below. It makes me think that the argument of nil, since that's not
> positive, would disable font-lock-mode, but it doesn't. The function
> really needs a negative argument. The documentation should be fixed.
Sorry, I don't understand which part of the documentation needs
fixing. Can you clarify?
This part:
> If called from Lisp, enable the mode if ARG is omitted or nil.
clearly says that calling the function with nil as its argument
_enables_ the mode, not disables it.
As for being not positive, nil is not a number, so its sign is really
undefined, I think.