bug#6770: 23.2; Elisp manual typo

bug#6770: 23.2; Elisp manual typo

[Colin Fraizer]

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The elisp info file (emacs lisp manual) entry for this function

 -- Function: error-message-string error-description

should read

 -- Function: error-message-string error-descriptor

 

That is, replace the last three characters ("ion") with "or".

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600)

 of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1

Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7600

configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags
-Ic:/xpm/include'

 

Important settings:

  value of $LC_ALL: nil

  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil

  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil

  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil

  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil

  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil

  value of $LC_TIME: nil

  value of $LANG: ENU

  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil

  locale-coding-system: cp1252

  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

 

Major mode: Help

 

Minor modes in effect:

  shell-dirtrack-mode: t

  iswitchb-mode: t

  tooltip-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

  line-number-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

  view-mode: t

 

Recent input:

f o r c e C-g C-g <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-n C-n 

C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 

C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-v C-v C-v C-n 

C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 

C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-s n o n f r e <backspace> 

<backspace> <backspace> - f r e e C-s C-a C-l C-l C-s 

C-s C-a C-h i u d m e l i <tab> <return> C-n C-n C-n 

C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 

C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 

C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p 

C-p C-p C-p <return> SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC 

SPC SPC SPC <language-change> <language-change> <lwindow> 

SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC 

l l l SPC SPC SPC SPC t l u C-p u u <return> C-n C-n 

C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 

C-p <return> m m a c r o <tab> <return> SPC SPC SPC 

SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC ] ] ] ] ] ] [ SPC ] ] SPC k i s 

e t q <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 

i f <return> l SPC SPC <C-M-scroll> SPC SPC SPC SPC 

SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC C-h C-h SPC SPC <backspace> 

C-a C-s b u g C-s C-g C-g C-h C-h C-x o C-h C-h h C-s 

g e r m a n C-a C-v C-h C-h l C-h C-h SPC C-d C-x o 

<C-M-scroll> <C-M-scroll> <C-M-scroll> <C-M-scroll> 

M-x r e p o r t - e m <tab> <return>

 

Recent messages:

Mark saved where search started

Quit

Mark saved where search started [2 times]

Found `if' in Index.  (79 total; use `,' for next)

For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Quit

View mode: type C-h for help, C-h m for commands, M-x View-quit to quit.

Mark saved where search started

Type C-x 1 to delete the help window, C-M-v to scroll help.

View mode: type C-h for help, C-h m for commands, M-x View-quit to quit.

 

Load-path shadows:

c:/local/lisp/org hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org

c:/local/lisp/org-xoxo hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-xoxo

c:/local/lisp/org-wl hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-wl

c:/local/lisp/org-w3m hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-w3m

c:/local/lisp/org-vm hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-vm

c:/local/lisp/org-timer hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-timer

c:/local/lisp/org-table hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-table

c:/local/lisp/org-src hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-src

c:/local/lisp/org-rmail hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-rmail

c:/local/lisp/org-remember hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-remember

c:/local/lisp/org-publish hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-publish

c:/local/lisp/org-protocol hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-protocol

c:/local/lisp/org-plot hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-plot

c:/local/lisp/org-mouse hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-mouse

c:/local/lisp/org-mobile hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-mobile

c:/local/lisp/org-mhe hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-mhe

c:/local/lisp/org-mew hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-mew

c:/local/lisp/org-macs hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-macs

c:/local/lisp/org-mac-message hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-mac-message

c:/local/lisp/org-list hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-list

c:/local/lisp/org-latex hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-latex

c:/local/lisp/org-jsinfo hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-jsinfo

c:/local/lisp/org-irc hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-irc

c:/local/lisp/org-install hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-install

c:/local/lisp/org-inlinetask hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-inlinetask

c:/local/lisp/org-info hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-info

c:/local/lisp/org-indent hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-indent

c:/local/lisp/org-id hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-id

c:/local/lisp/org-icalendar hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-icalendar

c:/local/lisp/org-html hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-html

c:/local/lisp/org-habit hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-habit

c:/local/lisp/org-gnus hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-gnus

c:/local/lisp/org-freemind hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-freemind

c:/local/lisp/org-footnote hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-footnote

c:/local/lisp/org-feed hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-feed

c:/local/lisp/org-faces hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-faces

c:/local/lisp/org-exp hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-exp

c:/local/lisp/org-exp-blocks hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-exp-blocks

c:/local/lisp/org-docbook hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-docbook

c:/local/lisp/org-datetree hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-datetree

c:/local/lisp/org-crypt hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-crypt

c:/local/lisp/org-compat hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-compat

c:/local/lisp/org-colview hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-colview

c:/local/lisp/org-clock hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-clock

c:/local/lisp/org-bibtex hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-bibtex

c:/local/lisp/org-bbdb hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-bbdb

c:/local/lisp/org-attach hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-attach

c:/local/lisp/org-ascii hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-ascii

c:/local/lisp/org-archive hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-archive

c:/local/lisp/org-agenda hides c:/emacs-23.2/lisp/org/org-agenda

 

Features:

(shadow sort mail-extr message ecomplete rfc822 mml mml-sec

password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231

rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc

mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils wid-edit mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util

hashcash mail-utils emacsbug goto-addr thingatpt thai-util thai-word

mule-util lao-util autorevert doc-view jka-compr image-mode pp shell

multi-isearch hexl eldoc browse-url help-mode view printing ps-print

ps-def lpr org-install find-lisp dired-x dired-aux dired remember

org-protocol org-attach org-id org byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile advice

help-fns advice-preload ob-emacs-lisp ob-keys ob-comint comint ring

ob-tangle ob-ref ob-lob ob-table ob org-footnote org-src org-list

org-faces org-compat org-entities org-macs time-date noutline outline

easy-mmode cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs ediff-merg ediff-diff

ediff-wind ediff-help ediff-util ediff-mult ediff-init ediff skeleton

avoid edmacro kmacro iswitchb regexp-opt column-marker paren info

easymenu server tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel

dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image

fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select

scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core

frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai

tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european

ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help

simple abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files

text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom

widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process multi-tty

emacs) 


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bug#6770: 23.2; Elisp manual typo

[Christoph]

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This bug report looks correct.

Attached is a patch to fix this issue.

Christoph

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=== modified file 'doc/lispref/control.texi'
--- doc/lispref/control.texi	2010-03-31 09:43:53 +0000
+++ doc/lispref/control.texi	2010-08-02 01:08:25 +0000
@@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@
 @xref{Definition of signal}.
 @end defspec
 
-@defun error-message-string error-description
+@defun error-message-string error-descriptor
 This function returns the error message string for a given error
 descriptor.  It is useful if you want to handle an error by printing the
 usual error message for that error.  @xref{Definition of signal}.

bug#6770: 23.2; Elisp manual typo

[Stefan Monnier]

> -@defun error-message-string error-description
> +@defun error-message-string error-descriptor

Thanks, installed.


        Stefan

bug#6770: 23.2; Elisp manual typo

[Johan Bockgård]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> -@defun error-message-string error-description
>> +@defun error-message-string error-descriptor
>
> Thanks, installed.

"description" is correct. The paragraph that follows should be fixed
instead.