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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 8853@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8853: 24.0.50; regression: doc string of `special-display-popup-frame'
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:05:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yyxboxtod57.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DF726AC.5010806@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:15:24 +0200")

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>> This regression was introduced in release 23.1.  Prior to that release,
>> the doc string said, correctly,
>> "If ARGS is a list whose car is a symbol, use (car ARGS) as a function
>> to do the work.  Pass it BUFFER as first arg, and (cdr ARGS) as the
>> rest of its args."
>>  Now it says, incorrectly,
>> "If ARGS is a list whose car is a symbol, use (car ARGS) as a
>> function to do the work.  Pass it BUFFER as first argument,
>> and (cdr ARGS) as second."
>>  If ARGS is a list whose car is a symbol `f', then
>> `special-display-popup-frame' invokes `f', passing it as arguments,
>> BUFFER followed by all of the elements in (cdr ARGS).  The arity of `f'
>> is the length of ARGS, not just 2.  We do not pass `f' (cdr ARGS) as a
>> second argument.
>
> Indeed.  Could someone please restore the old doc-string in Emacs 23?

Fixed.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-19 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-13 17:11 bug#8853: 24.0.50; regression: doc string of `special-display-popup-frame' Drew Adams
2011-06-14  9:15 ` martin rudalics
2011-06-19 19:05   ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-06-29 16:58     ` Drew Adams
2011-06-29 23:16       ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-10 16:47         ` Drew Adams
2012-09-16  4:45       ` Chong Yidong

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