From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11542: 24.0.97; doc string of `save-current-buffer' Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 11:29:26 -0700 Message-ID: <27DBD9AF30CD4380BF9DE0BD9D5F85D3@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337711428 4065 80.91.229.3 (22 May 2012 18:30:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 18:30:28 +0000 (UTC) To: 11542@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 22 20:30:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SWtqj-0002CT-Tn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 20:30:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43666 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWtqj-00007o-Em for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Since even that is a bit ambiguous, it is even better to speak in terms of remembering which buffer is current. This is important because the Emacs doc speaks elsewhere of "saving" a buffer as saving the buffer's contents to a file. We should avoid using "saving" for anything else when it comes to buffers. So I would suggest something like this for the doc string: "Execute BODY then return to the buffer that was current at the outset." In GNU Emacs 24.0.97.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-05-16 on MARVIN Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include'