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bug#19114: 25.0.50; doc string of `eval-expression-print-format' is inap
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#19114: 25.0.50; doc string of `eval-expression-print-format' is inappropriate |
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Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:33:48 +0200 |
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Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
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>> I don't know quite what they're trying to express here...
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> Seems this function does only return a non-nil value for integer
> values. It seems to be responsible for printing it in octal, hex, and
> as a character.
Yes. Its name and its doc string seems to suggest that it's doing
something general, but it's doing something very particular: Formatting
an "extended integer" explanation in some circumstances.
I'll rewrite the doc string to say that it's doing that.
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