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From: MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, 6576@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:06:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACU6nW3Gya4T3zUHgDxcGs-xzn-dS6rQnJjqcbvdgyRaOr=tzw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3aacghcte.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> No, not really.  :-)  I think these functions should say that they
> return a character, and if that's not sufficient, they should refer you
> to the manual to explain what Emacs means by a character.

If it doesn't do what it says or then a pointer into the manual won't
help clarify the underlying issue and only glosses over it.


--
/s_P\





  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-15 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-06 21:34 bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect MON KEY
2010-07-07  7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-07  8:40   ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-07 10:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-07 12:16       ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-07 14:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-07 15:46           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-13 23:50             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14  2:13               ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-14 13:02                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14  3:06               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 13:00                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 13:34                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 14:06                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 15:59                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 16:12                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 19:37                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 19:39                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-15 19:06                               ` MON KEY [this message]
2011-07-21 18:38                                 ` Chong Yidong

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