From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: hendrik.tews@kernkonzept.com, 45438@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:28:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kt6no-0002VV-Ma@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blehcyai.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 25 Dec 2020 23:32:05 +0100)
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> Indeed, but Emacs does not have a history of when functions are
> introduced -- we only have guesswork. Which is why it says "probably".
Every new function is listed in the ChangeLog files.
_We_ know when it was introduced.
What this means
> > assoc-delete-all was introduced in emacs 26.2, however,
> > describe-function says "Probably introduced at or before Emacs
> > version 21.1.".
is that the data that describe-function consults does not have all the
information that we have.
Whether it is worth doing the work to make it better, I have no
opinion. Maybe it is better to do other work instead.
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Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-26 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-25 22:13 bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all Hendrik Tews
2020-12-25 22:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-26 10:28 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-12-26 10:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-26 21:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-27 5:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-27 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-28 5:25 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-26 21:04 ` Hendrik Tews
2020-12-26 21:17 ` Hendrik Tews
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2020-12-26 18:59 ` Drew Adams
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