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bug#16942: 24.3; replace-match does not return t as stated in the manual
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#16942: 24.3; replace-match does not return t as stated in the manual |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:11:45 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Version: 24.4
Phillip Lord wrote:
>>From info node: `(elisp) Replacing Match'
>
> If you did the last search in a buffer, you should omit the STRING
> argument or specify `nil' for it, and make sure that the current
> buffer is the one in which you performed the last search. Then
> this function edits the buffer, replacing the matched text with
> REPLACEMENT. It leaves point at the end of the replacement text,
> and returns `t'.
>
> In my hands, replace-match returns nil regardless. The docstring does
> not mention the return type.
I simply undocumented the return value, since it was both uninteresting
and wrong.