From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: 72554@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72554: 31.0.50; misleading release information for 'always'
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 13:16:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1q2waar0@gentoo.org> (raw)
"C-h f always RET" says:
always is a byte-compiled Lisp function in ‘subr.el’.
[...]
Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 25.1.
This function does not change global state, including the match data.
However, 'always' only appeared in Emacs 28, so that information is
misleading when trying to write backwards compatible code.
(It's less of a problem when the version that is shown is greater than
the actual first release, which I think happens more often.)
Not sure how to fix this. Maybe exclude common English words (which
are likely to appear in NEWS* without being the name of a function)
from scanning in help-fns.el?
next reply other threads:[~2024-08-10 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-10 11:16 Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2024-08-10 11:42 ` bug#72554: 31.0.50; misleading release information for 'always' Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-10 12:07 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-08-10 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
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