Re: master 1cc4babde23: ; Turn off a mode with -1, not zero

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Sean Whitton <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:30:34 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii [16/Aug  4:57am -04] wrote:
> > branch: master
> > commit 1cc4babde2390c3842cf59b07100e196bca82bbe
> > Author: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
> > Commit: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
> >
> >     ; Turn off a mode with -1, not zero
> 
> Could you say more?  I didn't think we had a preference here, and the
> docs don't suggest there is one.

The documentation barely mentions the zero variant; that's what the
bug was about in the first place.

> I don't object to the change, I would just like to know more.

See the discussion in the bug report.  The change was suggested by
Stefan.  I myself never use zero, always -1, FWIW.
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