* bug#50644: Ungrokkable argument names in string-replace
@ 2021-09-17 16:08 Juri Linkov
2021-09-17 16:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: Juri Linkov @ 2021-09-17 16:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 50644
Especially INSTRING is hard to parse in:
-- Function: string-replace fromstring tostring instring
This function replaces all occurrences of FROMSTRING with TOSTRING
in INSTRING and returns the result. It may return one of its
arguments unchanged, a constant string or a new string. Case is
significant, and text properties are ignored.
Whereas other functions like perform-replace use ‘-’ to separate words,
e.g. “FROM-STRING”:
-- Function: perform-replace from-string replacements query-flag
regexp-flag delimited-flag &optional repeat-count map start
end backward region-noncontiguous-p
This function is the guts of ‘query-replace’ and related commands.
It searches for occurrences of FROM-STRING in the text between
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