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bug#24222: 24.5; Elisp `Standard Errors' and `Classifying Lists'
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#24222: 24.5; Elisp `Standard Errors' and `Classifying Lists' |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 17:21:37 +0300 |
> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 19:37:57 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> `wrong-number-of-arguments' is an index entry, with target node `Argument
> List'. Perhaps that would be a better target in `Standard Errors', instead
> of `Classifying Lists'.
I couldn't find a better place for this index entry. Instead, I added
a cross-reference to "Standard Errors".
> In node `Standard Errors', for error `wrong-number-of-arguments', the only
> description is "See Classifying Lists." OK, so we click that link to find
> out what this error type means...
>
> Node `Classifying Lists' we see some odd introductory text telling us to
> expect that "below" (in this node, presumably, as that is all we see at this
> point) we will find descriptions of the three kinds of forms (function call,
> macro call, special form).
>
> But there are no such descriptions. Huh?
>
> And just where do we find a description of a `wrong-number-of-arguments'
> error?
>
> This doc bug is _very_ old, dating back to at least Emacs 20.
I changed the cross-reference to go to Argument List" instead.
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