From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: William Rankin <william@bydasein.com>
Cc: 42666@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42666: 27.1; function exec-path is reported as introduced in 22.1
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 15:14:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y29mfwwi.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ime1ecvk.fsf@bydasein.com> (William Rankin's message of "Sun, 02 Aug 2020 17:16:31 +1000")
William Rankin <william@bydasein.com> writes:
> The describe-function output for function exec-path, introduced in 27.1,
> reports the function as introduced at or before Emacs version 22.1 when
> actually introduced in 27.1.
Well, it says "probably". It's just guessing, and those will be wrong
sometimes.
> I'm not sure there's much that can be done about this since
> help-fns--first-release is finding the variable exec-path mentioned in
> an entry regarding movemail in NEWS.22.
I don't think the guesswork here can be improved much, so I'm closing
this bug report.
--
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2020-08-02 7:16 bug#42666: 27.1; function exec-path is reported as introduced in 22.1 William Rankin via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-02 7:19 ` William Rankin via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-03 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-08 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-31 13:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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