bug#72486: 31.0.50; string> not documented in the lispref manual

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

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>>>>> On Tue, 06 Aug 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Thanks, but:

>   . this should go to the release branch
>   . the truth is that string-greaterp is the function and string> is
>     its alias, not the other way around, so I'd reverse the
>     description (and likewise for string<)

Same for string-equal and string=. Updated patch below.


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From 4dc9e99349d23f6c7fc43f02d5f1e8c50f473183 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ulrich=20M=C3=BCller?= <ulm@gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 18:04:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update description of string comparison functions

* doc/lispref/strings.texi (Text Comparison): Swap descriptions	of
'string-equal' (the function) and 'string=' (its alias).  Same for
'string-lessp' and 'string<'.  Document 'string>'.  (Bug#72486)
* doc/lispref/sequences.texi (Sequence Functions): Update cross
reference to 'string-lessp'.
---
 doc/lispref/sequences.texi |  5 +++--
 doc/lispref/strings.texi   | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/lispref/sequences.texi b/doc/lispref/sequences.texi
index 9b0a0d74f30..079fc6094c3 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/sequences.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/sequences.texi
@@ -468,8 +468,9 @@ Sequence Functions
 @item
 Numbers are compared using @code{<} (@pxref{definition of <}).
 @item
-Strings are compared using @code{string<} (@pxref{definition of
-string<}) and symbols are compared by comparing their names as strings.
+Strings are compared using @code{string-lessp} (@pxref{definition of
+string-lessp}) and symbols are compared by comparing their names as
+strings.
 @item
 Conses, lists, vectors and records are compared lexicographically.  This
 means that the two sequences are compared element-wise from left to
diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi
index d29665ac19b..09ab93ded27 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ Text Comparison
 @end example
 @end defun
 
-@defun string= string1 string2
+@defun string-equal string1 string2
 This function returns @code{t} if the characters of the two strings
 match exactly.  Symbols are also allowed as arguments, in which case
 the symbol names are used.  Case is always significant, regardless of
@@ -513,25 +513,25 @@ Text Comparison
 the two strings are ignored; use @code{equal-including-properties} if
 you need to distinguish between strings that differ only in their text
 properties.  However, unlike @code{equal}, if either argument is not a
-string or symbol, @code{string=} signals an error.
+string or symbol, @code{string-equal} signals an error.
 
 @example
-(string= "abc" "abc")
+(string-equal "abc" "abc")
      @result{} t
-(string= "abc" "ABC")
+(string-equal "abc" "ABC")
      @result{} nil
-(string= "ab" "ABC")
+(string-equal "ab" "ABC")
      @result{} nil
 @end example
 
 A unibyte and a multibyte string are equal in the sense of
-@code{string=} if and only if they contain the same sequence of
+@code{string-equal} if and only if they contain the same sequence of
 character codes all being in the range 0--127 (@acronym{ASCII}).
 @xref{Text Representations}.
 @end defun
 
-@defun string-equal string1 string2
-@code{string-equal} is another name for @code{string=}.
+@defun string= string1 string2
+@code{string=} is another name for @code{string-equal}.
 @end defun
 
 @defun string-equal-ignore-case string1 string2
@@ -597,9 +597,8 @@ Text Comparison
 @end defun
 
 @cindex lexical comparison of strings
-@anchor{definition of string<}
-@defun string< string1 string2
-@c (findex string< causes problems for permuted index!!)
+@anchor{definition of string-lessp}
+@defun string-lessp string1 string2
 This function compares two strings a character at a time.  It
 scans both the strings at the same time to find the first pair of corresponding
 characters that do not match.  If the lesser character of these two is
@@ -618,11 +617,11 @@ Text Comparison
 
 @example
 @group
-(string< "abc" "abd")
+(string-lessp "abc" "abd")
      @result{} t
-(string< "abd" "abc")
+(string-lessp "abd" "abc")
      @result{} nil
-(string< "123" "abc")
+(string-lessp "123" "abc")
      @result{} t
 @end group
 @end example
@@ -634,15 +633,15 @@ Text Comparison
 
 @example
 @group
-(string< "" "abc")
+(string-lessp "" "abc")
      @result{} t
-(string< "ab" "abc")
+(string-lessp "ab" "abc")
      @result{} t
-(string< "abc" "")
+(string-lessp "abc" "")
      @result{} nil
-(string< "abc" "ab")
+(string-lessp "abc" "ab")
      @result{} nil
-(string< "" "")
+(string-lessp "" "")
      @result{} nil
 @end group
 @end example
@@ -651,8 +650,8 @@ Text Comparison
 are compared.
 @end defun
 
-@defun string-lessp string1 string2
-@code{string-lessp} is another name for @code{string<}.
+@defun string< string1 string2
+@code{string<} is another name for @code{string-lessp}.
 @end defun
 
 @defun string-greaterp string1 string2
@@ -661,6 +660,10 @@ Text Comparison
 @code{(string-lessp @var{string2} @var{string1})}.
 @end defun
 
+@defun string> string1 string2
+@code{string>} is another name for @code{string-greaterp}.
+@end defun
+
 @cindex locale-dependent string comparison
 @defun string-collate-lessp string1 string2 &optional locale ignore-case
 This function returns @code{t} if @var{string1} is less than
-- 
2.45.2