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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <2291@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>, <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#2291: 23.0.90; finder-commentary
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:35:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006e01c98ca1$75da64c0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004e01c98c77$a84e2420$c2b22382@us.oracle.com>

I forgot to mention this:

3. The doc string of `finder-commentary' does not describe argument LIBRARY. The
doc string:

"Display FILE's commentary section.
FILE should be in a form suitable for passing to `locate-library'."

But the doc string of `locate-library' also does not say what is suitable for
its LIBRARY argument:

"Show the precise file name of Emacs library LIBRARY.
This command searches the directories in `load-path' like `M-x load-library'
to find the file that `M-x load-library RET LIBRARY RET' would load.
Optional second arg NOSUFFIX non-nil means don't add suffixes `load-suffixes'
to the specified name LIBRARY.

If the optional third arg PATH is specified, that list of directories
is used instead of `load-path'.

When called from a program, the file name is normally returned as a
string.  When run interactively, the argument INTERACTIVE-CALL is t,
and the file name is displayed in the echo area."

That says absolutely nothing about argument LIBRARY, except that it is a
library. However, it refers you to `load-library'. But the doc string of
`load-library' also says absolutely nothing about argument LIBRARY. It refers
you to `load'...

The user should be told, somewhere along the line (preferably everywhere, if
short), just which Lisp objects are acceptable as values of argument LIBRARY.







  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-11 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87iqmjokga.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
2009-02-11 18:36 ` bug#2291: 23.0.90; finder-commentary Drew Adams
2009-02-11 23:35   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-02-13 15:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-08 20:05   ` bug#2291: marked as done (23.0.90; finder-commentary) Emacs bug Tracking System
2016-04-27 17:43   ` bug#2291: 23.0.90; finder-commentary Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-27 17:53     ` Drew Adams
2016-04-27 17:58       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-27 18:05         ` Drew Adams

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