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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 21315-done@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#21315: 25.0.50; doc of `kill-ring-save', `copy-region-as-kill' - bad
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:23:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a8pmdy8l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92143779-adfc-46ac-ac0d-2ba02174bb1a@default>

> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 08:54:44 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: juri@linkov.net, 21315@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > say this:
> >   The optional argument REGION non-nil means to ignore BEG and END and
> >   copy the region instead.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> (But I think we usually phrase that as: "Non-nil optional argument
> REGION means...".)
> 
> > Also, we should tell that this distinction is only relevant to
> > invoking these functions from Lisp programs, not interactively.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>   From Lisp, non-nil optional argument REGION means...
> 
> > As for the argument, AFAICT it makes no difference in interactive
> > usage.
> 
> Yes, it is always non-nil interactively: `prefix-numeric-value'
> never returns nil.
> 
> > Does documenting the above clarify the issue?
> 
> Yes, I think so.  Thx.

Thanks, I made all the changes.  I also added a reference to
filter-buffer-substring in these doc strings, something that should
have been done almost 11 years ago.  The ELisp manual is also updated.






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2015-12-06 16:54         ` bug#21315: 25.0.50; doc of `kill-ring-save', `copy-region-as-kill' - bad Drew Adams
2015-12-07 16:23           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-08-21 17:17 Drew Adams
2015-12-04 18:06 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-05 23:12   ` Juri Linkov
2015-12-06  2:13     ` Drew Adams
2015-12-06 16:15       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-06 16:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-08  0:49       ` Juri Linkov

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