* bug#16942: 24.3; replace-match does not return t as stated in the manual
@ 2014-03-05 11:01 Phillip Lord
2014-03-06 2:11 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Phillip Lord @ 2014-03-05 11:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 16942
This is a small documentation bug.
From info node: `(elisp) Replacing Match'
If you did the last search in a buffer, you should omit the STRING
argument or specify `nil' for it, and make sure that the current
buffer is the one in which you performed the last search. Then
this function edits the buffer, replacing the matched text with
REPLACEMENT. It leaves point at the end of the replacement text,
and returns `t'.
In my hands, replace-match returns nil regardless. The docstring does
not mention the return type.
Phil
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* bug#16942: 24.3; replace-match does not return t as stated in the manual
2014-03-05 11:01 bug#16942: 24.3; replace-match does not return t as stated in the manual Phillip Lord
@ 2014-03-06 2:11 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Glenn Morris @ 2014-03-06 2:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 16942-done
Version: 24.4
Phillip Lord wrote:
>>From info node: `(elisp) Replacing Match'
>
> If you did the last search in a buffer, you should omit the STRING
> argument or specify `nil' for it, and make sure that the current
> buffer is the one in which you performed the last search. Then
> this function edits the buffer, replacing the matched text with
> REPLACEMENT. It leaves point at the end of the replacement text,
> and returns `t'.
>
> In my hands, replace-match returns nil regardless. The docstring does
> not mention the return type.
I simply undocumented the return value, since it was both uninteresting
and wrong.
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