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bug#24222: 24.5; Elisp `Standard Errors' and `Classifying Lists'


From: 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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