From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 24979@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24979: 24.5; Doc string of `current-word'
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:24:56 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d144109b-5a29-4b6c-b984-10a0d7106f94@default> (raw)
This part of the doc string is wrong:
The function, belying its name, normally finds a symbol.
1. There is no "normally". Do you mean often? Usually? Sometimes?
(When?)
2. It always returns a string, never a symbol. A symbol is a Lisp
object. If you mean that it often returns a string that has symbol,
not word, syntax, then say so. That does not mean that it returns a
symbol. Yes, the first line of the doc now says that it returns a
string. This means that the doc as a whole is currently confusing
and inconsistent.
In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'
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2016-11-21 18:24 Drew Adams [this message]
2016-11-25 9:52 ` bug#24979: 24.5; Doc string of `current-word' Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <<83fumf51k7.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-11-25 15:36 ` Drew Adams
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