From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: a few minor issues with manuals ...
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:16:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E9F3B3.1000904@gmx.at> (raw)
(1) Elisp manual section 6.1 "Sequences" has in its first paragraph the
following sentence:
This section describes functions that accept any kind of sequence.
In the same section you find the following description:
-- Function: string-bytes string
This function returns the number of bytes in STRING. If STRING is
a multibyte string, this is greater than `(length STRING)'.
I consider this contradictory and either the sentence above should be
changed appropriately or `string-bytes' moved to section 4 (where I'd
expect to find it in the first place).
(2) Elisp manual section 16.5 "Evaluation During Compilation" contains
the following sentence:
They can be defined while compiling, but then not needed when
executing.
Either the formulation is wrong or I fail to understand this.
(3) Elisp manual section 35.6.5 "Parameters to Control Parsing" has
-- User Option: parse-sexp-ignore-comments
If the value is non-`nil', then comments are treated as whitespace
by the functions in this section and by `forward-sexp'.
which is slightly misleading. I'd rewrite the last line as
by `scan-lists', `scan-sexps', and `forward-sexp'.
(4) Elisp manual section 38.9.3 "Searching for Overlays" contains the
following example:
(defun find-overlay-prop (prop)
(save-excursion
(while (and (not (eobp))
(not (get-char-property (point) prop)))
(goto-char (min (next-overlay-change (point))
(next-single-property-change (point) prop))))
(point)))
This example is misleading since to search for the next change of a text
or overlay property `next-single-char-property-change' is far superior.
`find-overlay-prop' may render execution time proportional to two times
the size of the buffer.
(5) Emacs manual section 58.3.4.2 "Safety of File Variables" contains
the sentence:
The default is `maybe', which is neither `t' nor `nil', so normally
Emacs does ask for confirmation about processes `eval' variables.
Presumably "processes" should be "processing" here.
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2007-03-03 22:16 martin rudalics [this message]
2007-03-04 17:34 ` a few minor issues with manuals Richard Stallman
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