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bug#24979: 24.5; Doc string of `current-word'
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#24979: 24.5; Doc string of `current-word' |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:24:56 -0800 (PST) |
This part of the doc string is wrong:
The function, belying its name, normally finds a symbol.
1. There is no "normally". Do you mean often? Usually? Sometimes?
(When?)
2. It always returns a string, never a symbol. A symbol is a Lisp
object. If you mean that it often returns a string that has symbol,
not word, syntax, then say so. That does not mean that it returns a
symbol. Yes, the first line of the doc now says that it returns a
string. This means that the doc as a whole is currently confusing
and inconsistent.
In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'
- bug#24979: 24.5; Doc string of `current-word',
Drew Adams <=