bug#55086: closed (28.1; Improve doc of set-fontset-font)

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> 28.1; Improve doc of set-fontset-font
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> Sat, 23 Apr 2022 17:51:21 -0400
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> The eldoc string for set-fontset-font in Emacs 28 is
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>     (NAME TARGET FONT-SPEC &optional FRAME ADD)
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> I found NAME and TARGET to be unhelpfully generic.  The
> docstring does say that name is the name of a fontset and
> that TARGET is about characters.
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> The elisp manual names the params as:
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>     Function: set-fontset-font name character font-spec &optional frame add
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> character is an improvement but it should be plural.
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> I think they should be the same in both places and
> this would be clearer:
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>     (FONTSET CHARACTERS FONT-SPEC &optional FRAME ADD)
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> Howard
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> Re: bug#55086: 28.1; Improve doc of set-fontset-font
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> Sun, 24 Apr 2022 09:57:27 +0300
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> > From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 17:51:21 -0400
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> > The eldoc string for set-fontset-font in Emacs 28 is
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> >     (NAME TARGET FONT-SPEC &optional FRAME ADD)
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> > I found NAME and TARGET to be unhelpfully generic.  The
> > docstring does say that name is the name of a fontset and
> > that TARGET is about characters.
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> > The elisp manual names the params as:
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> >     Function: set-fontset-font name character font-spec &optional frame add
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> > character is an improvement but it should be plural.
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> > I think they should be the same in both places and
> > this would be clearer:
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> >     (FONTSET CHARACTERS FONT-SPEC &optional FRAME ADD)
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> Thanks, done.
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