From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 21231@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21231: 25.0.50; doc string of `marker-position'
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:48:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <df274984-6797-4dae-a93d-8ee807c0670b@default> (raw)
The doc string is misleading or confusing. Please follow what is said
in the Elisp manual.
The doc string says:
Return the position MARKER points at, as a character number.
Character number? What is that? It either means nothing or it means
something we don't want to convey here: the integer value of a
character.
The Emacs way of talking about this is to refer to it as a "buffer
position". It is a positive integer.
The manual just says "position". If you want to add that it is a
positive integer, fine.
And it would be better if the first line indicated the nil possibility.
Something like:
Return position of MARKER, or nil if it points nowhere.
If a position, it is a positive integer.
In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2014-10-20 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 118168 rgm@gnu.org-20141020195941-icp42t8ttcnud09g
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --enable-checking=yes,glyphs CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'
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2015-08-10 15:48 Drew Adams [this message]
2016-04-30 22:03 ` bug#21231: 25.0.50; doc string of `marker-position' Lars Ingebrigtsen
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