From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Docstring of make-symbolic-link
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:44:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeL0SQ4+8xm0bQsadvB8tFxUJjq8g_5qnf3dkJ1KSiZagXkGw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
make-symbolic link uses NEWNAME in its docstring, but LINKNAME as the
argument name:
(make-symbolic-link TARGET LINKNAME &optional OK-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS)
Make a symbolic link to TARGET, named NEWNAME.
If NEWNAME is a directory name, make a like-named symbolic link under
NEWNAME.
[etc...]
The easiest way to fix it is to change NEWNAME to LINKNAME in the
docstring, but I think NEWNAME is the preferred name, and it is also
used in the info files.
The alternative is to change linkname to newname in the code, and
encoded_linkname to encoded_newname (not required, but for
consistency).
It is a trivial change, but as it touches code in 26.2.50, better safe
than sorry. So, newname everywhere, or linkname everywhere (including
the info files)?
next reply other threads:[~2019-06-10 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-10 19:44 Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2019-06-11 14:22 ` Docstring of make-symbolic-link Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-11 15:50 ` Paul Eggert
2019-06-12 22:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-06-13 4:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-13 7:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-06-13 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-19 21:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-06-21 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-21 7:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-06-21 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
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