bug#4116: lisp/format.el (format-alist): a miswording in the docstring?

bug#4116: lisp/format.el (format-alist): a miswording in the docstring?

[Ivan Shmakov]

Package: emacs
Version: 22.3
Severity: minor

	lisp/format.el reads:

$ wget -qO - 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/plain/lisp/format.el?h=EMACS_22_BASE&id=c76887af64070fbe50d854b6a794c9d93e3982f4' \
      | nl -ba 
...
   118	REGEXP  is a regular expression to match against the beginning of the file;
   119	        it should match only files in that format.  Use nil to avoid
   120	        matching at all for formats for which it isn't appropriate to
   121	        require explicit encoding/decoding.
...
$ 

	I guess that there should rather be:

    ... for which it is appropriate...

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bug#4116: marked as done (lisp/format.el (format-alist): a miswording in the docstring?)

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From: Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com>
To: submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com>
Subject: lisp/format.el (format-alist): a miswording in the docstring?
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:40:00 +0700
Message-ID: <87y6pq4rkf.fsf@violet.siamics.int>

Package: emacs
Version: 22.3
Severity: minor

	lisp/format.el reads:

$ wget -qO - 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/plain/lisp/format.el?h=EMACS_22_BASE&id=c76887af64070fbe50d854b6a794c9d93e3982f4' \
      | nl -ba 
...
   118	REGEXP  is a regular expression to match against the beginning of the file;
   119	        it should match only files in that format.  Use nil to avoid
   120	        matching at all for formats for which it isn't appropriate to
   121	        require explicit encoding/decoding.
...
$ 

	I guess that there should rather be:

    ... for which it is appropriate...

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 4116-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: bug#4116: lisp/format.el (format-alist): a miswording in the docstring?
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:10:03 -0400
Message-ID: <l0eir08u7o.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>


Thanks, I have clarified the doc.