From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 21315@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#21315: 25.0.50; doc of `kill-ring-save', `copy-region-as-kill' - bad
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 08:54:44 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <92143779-adfc-46ac-ac0d-2ba02174bb1a@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83si3feepi.fsf@gnu.org>>
> say this:
> The optional argument REGION non-nil means to ignore BEG and END and
> copy the region instead.
Yes.
(But I think we usually phrase that as: "Non-nil optional argument
REGION means...".)
> Also, we should tell that this distinction is only relevant to
> invoking these functions from Lisp programs, not interactively.
Yes.
From Lisp, non-nil optional argument REGION means...
> As for the argument, AFAICT it makes no difference in interactive
> usage.
Yes, it is always non-nil interactively: `prefix-numeric-value'
never returns nil.
> Does documenting the above clarify the issue?
Yes, I think so. Thx.
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2015-12-06 16:54 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-12-07 16:23 ` bug#21315: 25.0.50; doc of `kill-ring-save', `copy-region-as-kill' - bad Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-21 17:17 Drew Adams
2015-12-04 18:06 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-05 23:12 ` Juri Linkov
2015-12-06 2:13 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-06 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-06 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-08 0:49 ` Juri Linkov
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