Re: About elements in `format-alist'

[Michael Heerdegen]

Xue Fuqiao <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi list,
>
> In the doc string of `format-alist':
>
>   Elements are of the form
>   (NAME DOC-STR REGEXP FROM-FN TO-FN MODIFY MODE-FN PRESERVE).
>
> There should be 8 elements in each list.  But there are only 7 elements
> in each list of the default value.  Which one is absent?  If there's an
> optional element, I think we should mention it in the doc string.

Looks like missing elements are just treated as if they were nil (the
code uses `nth').

Dunno if it's worth the trouble of making a bug report - since holding
the convention doesn't make problems (does it?).


Regards,

Michael.