* (elisp)Help Functions
@ 2005-12-20 2:44 Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-20 16:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
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From: Luc Teirlinck @ 2005-12-20 2:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
The description of `apropos' in `(elisp)Help Functions' is obsolete:
it still refers to the old REGEXP only argument.
Sincerely,
Luc.
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* Re: (elisp)Help Functions
2005-12-20 2:44 (elisp)Help Functions Luc Teirlinck
@ 2005-12-20 16:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-21 0:53 ` Chong Yidong
2005-12-21 5:21 ` Luc Teirlinck
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From: Richard M. Stallman @ 2005-12-20 16:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
The description of `apropos' in `(elisp)Help Functions' is obsolete:
it still refers to the old REGEXP only argument.
Thanks--I updated it. Could you see if anything is still wrong now?
However, the fact that this error was here makes me very worried
about the manuals.
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* Re: (elisp)Help Functions
2005-12-20 16:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
@ 2005-12-21 0:53 ` Chong Yidong
2005-12-21 5:21 ` Luc Teirlinck
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From: Chong Yidong @ 2005-12-21 0:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Luc Teirlinck, emacs-devel
"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> The description of `apropos' in `(elisp)Help Functions' is obsolete:
> it still refers to the old REGEXP only argument.
>
> Thanks--I updated it. Could you see if anything is still wrong now?
>
> However, the fact that this error was here makes me very worried
> about the manuals.
That's rather strange -- I checked man/help.texi and lispref/help.texi
at the same time, and I certainly remember bringing up the fact that
you can now supply a list to apropos rather than a regexp. The
discussion of apropos in the Emacs manual was indeed updated around
that time.
(I also seem to recall us having a discussion about this, with the
conclusion being that the new interface to apropos is meant for
interactive use rather than calling from an Emacs Lisp program. That
may be why the lispref discussion didn't get changed. Or I may be
misremembering -- that was a while ago, and I lost the email logs.)
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* Re: (elisp)Help Functions
2005-12-20 16:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-21 0:53 ` Chong Yidong
@ 2005-12-21 5:21 ` Luc Teirlinck
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From: Luc Teirlinck @ 2005-12-21 5:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
The following:
The function returns a list of elements that look like this:
(SYMBOL SCORE FN-DOC VAR-DOC PLIST-DOC WIDGET-DOC FACE-DOC GROUP-DOC)
looks borderline acceptable in Info, but seems to look very bad in the
printed manual (just take a look at it).
Sincerely,
Luc.
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