From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 8285@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8285: 24.0.50; doc of `imenu-generic-expression' and `imenu--generic-function'
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:49:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eeagyzmq.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6CAA58C0292943D68651BC3DB49A62C0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:09:47 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 1. In the doc string of `imenu--generic-function', these terms are
> completely undefined and unexplained: POSITION-MARKER, INDEX-NAME,
> FUNCTION, ARGUMENTS, INDEX-POSITION, and INDEX-ALIST. Please
> define/explain these undefined terms.
Eli answered this one...
> 2. Seems a bit odd that this internal-only function (judging by its
> name, which contains `--') has all of the important doc for
> `imenu-generic-expression'. In the past, the latter's doc string
> described the format. Now the format is described (only) in the doc
> string of an internal function. This state, which seems inappropriate,
> was introduced in Emacs 22.
This was fixed in:
commit b7ccbdc2e39ff834a03a7f30516b71cd98e84a44
Author: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Sun Aug 5 22:14:54 2012 +0800
So I'm closing this bug report.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-18 16:09 bug#8285: 24.0.50; doc of `imenu-generic-expression' and `imenu--generic-function' Drew Adams
2011-03-18 16:41 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-18 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-18 18:56 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-26 15:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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