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date | Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:36:19 +0200 |
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--- a/man/lispref/specifiers.texi Mon Aug 13 11:35:05 2007 +0200 +++ b/man/lispref/specifiers.texi Mon Aug 13 11:36:19 2007 +0200 @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ more convenient and should be used instead. @end defun -@deffn Macro let-specifier specifier-list &rest body +@defspec let-specifier specifier-list &rest body This special form temporarily adds specifications to specifiers, evaluates forms in @var{body} and restores the specifiers to their previous states. The specifiers and their temporary specifications are @@ -516,9 +516,9 @@ (let-specifier ((modeline-shadow-thickness 0 (selected-window))) (sit-for 1)) @end example -@end deffn +@end defspec -@defun set-specifier specifier value &optional how-to-add +@defun set-specifier specifier value &optional locale tag-set how-to-add This function adds some specifications to @var{specifier}. @var{value} can be a single instantiator or tagged instantiator (added as a global specification), a list of tagged and/or untagged instantiators (added as @@ -527,7 +527,8 @@ reasonable form. More specifically, @var{value} can be anything accepted by @code{canonicalize-spec-list}. -@var{how-to-add} is the same as in @code{add-spec-to-specifier}. +@var{locale}, @var{tag-set}, and @var{how-to-add} are the same as in +@code{add-spec-to-specifier}. Note that @code{set-specifier} is exactly complementary to @code{specifier-specs} except in the case where @var{specifier} has no @@ -626,7 +627,7 @@ or the symbol @code{global}), a spec-list consisting of the specification for that locale will be returned. -If @var{locale} is a locale type (i.e. a symbol @code{window}, +If @var{locale} is a locale type (i.e. one of the symbols @code{window}, @code{buffer}, @code{frame}, or @code{device}), a spec-list of the specifications for all locales of that type will be returned. @@ -639,7 +640,7 @@ Only instantiators where @var{tag-set} (a list of zero or more tags) is a subset of (or possibly equal to) the instantiator's tag set are -returned. (The default value of@code{ nil} is a subset of all tag sets, +returned. (The default value of @code{nil} is a subset of all tag sets, so in this case no instantiators will be screened out.) If @var{exact-p} is non-@code{nil}, however, @var{tag-set} must be equal to an instantiator's tag set for the instantiator to be returned. @@ -922,8 +923,8 @@ and can further be restricted to a particular device-type or device-class. Specifiers are used, for example, for the various built-in properties of a face; this allows a face to have different values in different frames, -buffers, etc. For more information, see `specifier-instance', -`specifier-specs', and `add-spec-to-specifier'; or, for a detailed +buffers, etc. For more information, see @code{specifier-instance}, +@code{specifier-specs}, and @code{add-spec-to-specifier}; or, for a detailed description of specifiers, including how they are instantiated over a particular domain (i.e. how their value in that domain is determined), see the chapter on specifiers in the XEmacs Lisp Reference Manual. @@ -1024,7 +1025,7 @@ @end defun @defun valid-specifier-locale-type-p locale-type -Given a specifier @var{locale-type}, this function returns non-nil if it +Given a specifier @var{locale-type}, this function returns non-@code{nil} if it is valid. Valid locale types are the symbols @code{global}, @code{device}, @code{frame}, @code{window}, and @code{buffer}. (Note, however, that in functions that accept either a locale or a locale type, @@ -1101,7 +1102,7 @@ instantiator's tag set for the instantiator to be copied. Optional argument @var{how-to-add} specifies what to do with existing -specifications in @var{dest}. If nil, then whichever locales or locale +specifications in @var{dest}. If @code{nil}, then whichever locales or locale types are copied will first be completely erased in @var{dest}. Otherwise, it is the same as in @code{add-spec-to-specifier}. @end defun