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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>,
	"Robert Pluim" <rpluim@gmail.com>,
	"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: master 583cb26 2/3: Improve accuracy in string-replace description (bug#43598)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:47:52 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a48b8e87-7121-4f78-80c0-207b19218d40@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJnXXoheYuUtgPFZ3e3OeQimDK+vbh51N5WZgd-R97WnQCuf_Q@mail.gmail.com>

> > > What do you find extremely confusing about it?
> >
> > The "equal" part.
> 
> Return a string equivalent to @var{instring} with every occurence
> of @var{fromstring} replaced by @var{tostring}.

"Equivalent" is unclear.  In what way equivalent?

`equal' and `string-equal' are clear.  They say just
what we mean here by "equivalent".

INSTRING and the returned string are `equal', modulo
the differences specified by FROMSTRING and TOSTRING.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-28 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200927124520.25321.62354@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20200927124522.BA20F207E0@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-09-28  9:42   ` master 583cb26 2/3: Improve accuracy in string-replace description (bug#43598) Robert Pluim
2020-09-28  9:59     ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-09-28 11:09       ` Robert Pluim
     [not found]         ` <CAJnXXojjUAcRVmsZNWQ2j9rSDv76Y0od4yWfVg11k-Q2tf4NYA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-09-28 13:50           ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-28 16:36             ` John Yates
2020-09-28 16:49               ` Drew Adams
2020-09-28 16:55                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 17:11                   ` Drew Adams
2020-09-28 18:11                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 22:36                       ` John Yates
2020-09-28 22:47                         ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-09-29  2:35                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29  4:28                             ` Drew Adams
2020-09-29  5:30                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29 15:28                                 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-29  2:37                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29  7:12                           ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-29 14:26                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29 15:23                               ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-29 16:02                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 17:44                 ` John Yates
2020-09-29 13:40                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-29 14:08                     ` Mattias Engdegård

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