From: uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 64960@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:20:45 +0000 [thread overview]
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On Monday, July 31st, 2023 at 6:36 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:42:28 +0000
> > From: uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> > the Swiss army knife of text editors" bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > Have been reading the documentation for "copy-sequence". The description,
> > specifically
> >
> > "The elements of a list, vector or record are not copied; they are
> > shared with the original."
> >
> > is not very clear about what it does and what one gets.
>
>
> As the doc string says: the elements are not copied. You get a new
> sequence whose elements are shared with the original one.
>
So it returns a copy but elements are not copied. So what happens exactly ?
You get a reference to the original ? When I modify the copy, the original
remains intact. It would help if the description in broadened, it is currently
too cryptic.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-30 16:42 bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-30 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-30 19:20 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-07-30 19:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-07-30 20:09 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-30 20:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-07-30 20:41 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-31 1:13 ` Drew Adams
2023-07-31 1:22 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-31 1:36 ` Drew Adams
2023-07-31 1:50 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-31 2:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-31 2:31 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-31 5:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-07-31 6:19 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-01 3:56 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-13 4:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-14 10:14 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-14 23:46 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-15 0:43 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-15 23:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-16 4:35 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-11 15:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-07-31 14:34 ` Drew Adams
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