From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bernard Hurley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20184: 24.4.50; Error in Emacs manual 24.4.50 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:52:15 +0000 Message-ID: <871tkf5yxs.fsf@snares-penguin.marcade.biz> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427138984 23703 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2015 19:29:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:29:44 +0000 (UTC) To: 20184@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 23 20:29:33 2015 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 1Ya82R-0006vs-JY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 20:29:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya82R-0001pj-0I for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56346) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya827-0001LY-LL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:29:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya822-0000q9-Ln for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44376) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya822-0000q3-IW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya822-00082K-4r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:29:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Bernard Hurley Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:29:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 20184 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.142713891430854 (code B ref -1); Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:29:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Mar 2015 19:28:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34152 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya81a-00081a-AL for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:28:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54462) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya81Y-00081N-Hb for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya81S-0000mX-EL for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:28:27 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:40921) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya81S-0000mT-BS for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:28:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56177) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya81R-0001Ci-J9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:28:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya81K-0000lD-P2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:28:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [86.53.51.141] (port=46804 helo=snares-penguin.marcade.biz) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya81K-0000kH-H9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:28:18 -0400 Original-Received: by snares-penguin.marcade.biz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B70192A0B8E; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:52:15 +0000 (GMT) X-Attribution: Bernard X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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:100856 Archived-At: -------- In the emacs manual version 24.4.50 section "2.7 Equality Predicates" the passage: ------------- snip -------------- -- Function: equal-including-properties object1 object2 This function behaves like `equal' in all cases but also requires that for two strings to be equal, they have the same text properties. (equal "asdf" (propertize "asdf" '(asdf t))) => t (equal-including-properties "asdf" (propertize "asdf" '(asdf t))) => nil ------------- snip -------------- probably should read: ------------- snip -------------- -- Function: equal-including-properties object1 object2 This function behaves like `equal' in all cases but also requires that for two strings to be equal, they have the same text properties. (equal "asdf" (propertize "asdf" 'asdf t)) => t (equal-including-properties "asdf" (propertize "asdf" 'asdf t)) => nil ------------- snip -------------- In other words the two occurrences of: '(asdf t) cause *** Eval error *** Wrong number of arguments I assume that what was meant in each case is: 'asdf t Regards, Bernard.