From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23067: 25.0.92; A detail in the doc of query-replace Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 13:09:39 +0300 Message-ID: <83k2kq27j0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87oaa9vrdz.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458900622 20220 80.91.229.3 (25 Mar 2016 10:10:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 10:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23067-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 11:10:10 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ajOgy-0003Y0-5X for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 11:10:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55235 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajOgx-0005Z2-4O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51737) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajOgt-0005Yc-BY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajOgs-0002eL-Ds for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:39769) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajOgs-0002eB-AI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ajOgs-0003qF-7C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:10:02 -0400 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 10:10:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 23067 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 23067@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, michael_heerdegen@web.de Original-Received: via spool by 23067-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D23067.145890059814748 (code D ref 23067); Fri, 25 Mar 2016 10:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23067-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Mar 2016 10:09:58 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36895 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ajOgn-0003po-Qb for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:09:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60709) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ajOgm-0003pb-9R for 23067-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:09:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajOgc-0002cZ-UW for 23067-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:09:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45864) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajOgc-0002cV-RN; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:09:46 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4702 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ajOgc-0002UQ-5x; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:09:46 -0400 In-reply-to: <87oaa9vrdz.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Sun, 20 Mar 2016 03:02:00 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:115470 Archived-At: > From: Michael Heerdegen > Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 03:02:00 +0100 > > "In Transient Mark mode, if the mark is active, operate on the contents > of the region. Otherwise, operate from point to the end of the buffer." > > I think the second sentence is confusing (wrong). The command operates > up to `point-max'. Thanks. I fixed the doc string of this function (and of a few others in the same file). However, I must say that it makes very little sense to me to make such corrections only in a couple of functions, when we have gobs of them with the same problem in the doc strings, so much so that I wonder whether "end of buffer" isn't already a widely accepted synonym of "end of the buffer's accessible portion", and we shouldn't bother, certainly not with fixing that one function at a time. I won't be surprised if the same issue has crept in the manuals as well. Please, let's not start another prolonged dispute that leads nowhere. Instead, if someone really thinks this stuff should be spelled out in documentation, that someone is kindly requested to submit a patch that fixes _all_ of the instances where we don't say that explicitly. TIA.