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bug#12325: 24.2.50; doc of `replace-match' for STRING case
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Chong Yidong |
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bug#12325: 24.2.50; doc of `replace-match' for STRING case |
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Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:26:55 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> The doc, both the doc string and the Elisp manual entry, is not
> sufficiently clear that for the non-nil STRING case `replace-match' does
> NOT modify STRING but returns a new string.
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> That the function returns a new string is said, but that statement is
> buried among other statements that give the impression that STRING is
> modified.
Fixed in trunk.