Re: Toggle appointment notification

[daniela-spit]

> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2020 at 3:47 AM
> From: "Michael Heerdegen" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Toggle appointment notification
>
> daniela-spit@gmx.it writes:
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> > Would it be possible to clarify this in the defun description string,
> > saying:
> >
> > ARG is positive (ARG > 0), otherwise off.
>
> Would you really want to add that for every command where it could
> matter?  That would be a lot.

I see.

> BTW, it wouldn't clarify the issue in my opinion: since +0 is probably
> not negative, and when we assume it is different from 0, i.e. not `=' 0,
> I would guess it could be > 0, so the above sentence would still not
> make it clear how a hypothetical +0 would behave.

How about putting a note in the Emacs Tutorial.  It is short and every new user
reads. And say that by positive we always mean greater than zero.  In french
speaking countries, zero is considered positive.

Daniela


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