From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 28070@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28070: 24.5; doc string of `eval-buffer'
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 19:39:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ef2rb3jg.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d3f4bdee-6749-47e2-adf1-8cd729fafd8e@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 12 Aug 2017 15:45:25 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> The doc string should, like Elisp manual node `Eval', mention that this
> does NOT always "Execute the current buffer as Lisp code." It acts on the current buffer restriction, if any.
>
> As the manual says:
>
> `eval-buffer' operates on the entire accessible portion of buffer
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> That qualification changes everything. We don't always need to point
> out explicitly that a particular function acts on the accessible portion
> of the buffer, but it is important to do so in this case.
Looks like this was fixed in 2015:
---
Execute the accessible portion of current buffer as Lisp code.
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2017-08-12 22:45 bug#28070: 24.5; doc string of `eval-buffer' Drew Adams
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