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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Randy Yates <randy.yates@ti.com>
Cc: 11056-close@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11056: 23.3; GNUS documentation error
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:33:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bomzwcm7.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w6l3992vug2.fsf@pickme24.dal.design.ti.com> (Randy Yates's message of "Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:34:53 -0500")

> I didn't fill in any of the above since this is simply a complaint about the
> documentation string for the gnus-summary-move-article function and its
> relatives. 

> The first sentence of that docstring states: 

>   Move the current article to a different newsgroup.

> That sentence is false, depending on the parameters passed. 

> Why couldn't it read

>   Move a group of articles to a different newsgroup.

It says that, because that's what all these commands do if you just call
them without any parameters.

The second line says

If N is a positive number, move the N next articles.

and so on.

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-10 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-21 15:34 bug#11056: 23.3; GNUS documentation error Randy Yates
2012-04-10 20:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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