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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256647 Archived-At: > > > What do you find extremely confusing about it? > > > > The "equal" part. >=20 > 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.