From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:20:45 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83leex2qmn.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: uzibalqa Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17126"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 64960@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 30 21:22:13 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qQBzY-0004Fi-Vv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2023 21:22:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qQBzQ-0004Ix-Ey; Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qQBzO-0004Ik-AX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qQBzO-00048d-21 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:22:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qQBzN-0006kQ-Qw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:22:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: uzibalqa Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:22:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 64960 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 64960-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B64960.169074487125877 (code B ref 64960); Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:22:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 64960) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Jul 2023 19:21:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51271 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qQByZ-0006jJ-8o for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-4324.protonmail.ch ([185.70.43.24]:37013) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qQByT-0006iN-PO for 64960@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:21:09 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=proton.me; s=protonmail; t=1690744859; x=1691004059; bh=Tz0j+IlJpGwqntlsbB471ym0B3uHbRAjKHwSDbG9TWg=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=SRwPRH5p+Og5etR6LOptZhRdEZGcMwAGim54YM0KZd1hg8MwSLJFiCH5x1qQviJIK Tu0PH0durxKWiWdjfxvWr50PCGS6NAOlI+luJ31XZPjLXYgm3chm39i4jLY2S36But YCA/HWKe0F6bNDeQSyremg9ayak+66HjLxSuecmDNJllKNCLroiMvQMLliIMiYaRzD jNp/qJwV3zODLnLWbUHF+hMyyiXdIbFxK6sLD8du5do29IZiZSEmzilFvOddoGiz/F SE/qu3u2CTVaecHvtK1hmdD9JuLZkhYqYeV06RRX/JXoZsCBbbPEkwZns/eH0hnoyM z8G5S6e7VlIpw== In-Reply-To: <83leex2qmn.fsf@gnu.org> Feedback-ID: 52887082:user:proton X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:266379 Archived-At: Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, July 31st, 2023 at 6:36 AM, Eli Zaretskii 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 > >=20 > > Have been reading the documentation for "copy-sequence". The descriptio= n, > > specifically > >=20 > > "The elements of a list, vector or record are not copied; they are > > shared with the original." > >=20 > > is not very clear about what it does and what one gets. >=20 >=20 > As the doc string says: the elements are not copied. You get a new > sequence whose elements are shared with the original one. >=20 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= =20 remains intact. It would help if the description in broadened, it is curre= ntly too cryptic.