From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: William Rankin <william@bydasein.com>
Cc: 42666@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42666: 27.1; function exec-path is reported as introduced in 22.1
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2020 10:55:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d0417esk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ime1ecvk.fsf@bydasein.com> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2020 17:16:31 +1000
> From: William Rankin via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
>
> The describe-function output for function exec-path, introduced in 27.1,
> reports the function as introduced at or before Emacs version 22.1 when
> actually introduced in 27.1.
>
> I'm not sure there's much that can be done about this since
> help-fns--first-release is finding the variable exec-path mentioned in
> an entry regarding movemail in NEWS.22.
>
> Maybe help-fns--first-release could limit mentions instead to outline
> headings?
Or maybe it should look for "function SYMBOL" instead of just SYMBOL?
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-02 7:16 bug#42666: 27.1; function exec-path is reported as introduced in 22.1 William Rankin via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-02 7:19 ` William Rankin via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-03 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-08 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-31 13:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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