From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Optional third argument - name not mentioned in docstring
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:53:07 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1EwOcF-0004EoC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C3DDAD.4030600@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:15:41 +0100)
In the doc strings for `search-forward' and `search-backward' the
argument names "bound" etc are not mentioned. Instead the doc strings
just says:
Optional third argument, if t, ...
Should not the names be mentioned?
No, I just read the doc string from describe-function and it says
An optional second argument bounds the search; it is a buffer position.
which is entirely clear. Indeed, I find the rest of the documentation
clear, too:
Optional third argument, if t, means if fail just return nil (no error).
If not nil and not t, move to limit of search and return nil.
Optional fourth argument is repeat count--search for successive occurrences.
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2006-01-10 16:15 Optional third argument - name not mentioned in docstring Lennart Borgman
2006-01-10 18:53 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2006-01-11 13:55 ` Richard M. Stallman
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