Yes, good catch.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016, 7:39 PM Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 21:12:00 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> >> From: a.lloyd.flanagan@gmail.com (A. Lloyd Flanagan)
> >> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:01:51 -0400
> >>
> >> In the elisp manual, section "Association Lists", the function alist-get
> >> is shown with the signature:
> >>
> >> Function: alist-get key value &optional default remove
> >>
> >> but it should be
> >>
> >> Function: alist-get key alist &optional default remove
> >
> > Thanks, fixed on the emacs-25 branch.
>
>
> > -@defun alist-get key value &optional default remove
> > +@defun alist-get key alist &optional default remove
> >  This function is like @code{assq}, but instead of returning the entire
> > -association for @var{key}, @code{(@var{key} . @var{value})}, it
> > -returns just the @var{value}.  If @var{key} is not found in
> > -@var{alist} it returns @var{default}.
> > +association for @var{key} in @var{alist},
> > +@w{@code{(@var{key} . @var{value})}}, it returns just the @var{value}.
>                                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > +If @var{key} is not found in @var{alist}, it returns @var{default}.
>
> Shouldn't the text be "it returns just the value", i.e. without the
> markup, since `value' is no longer a formal argument of the function
> signature?
>
> Steve Berman
>
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