From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 8853@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8853: 24.0.50; regression: doc string of `special-display-popup-frame'
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:15:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF726AC.5010806@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02BA37D6C63F4064B4ABD0B6984FFE91@us.oracle.com>
> This regression was introduced in release 23.1. Prior to that release,
> the doc string said, correctly,
> "If ARGS is a list whose car is a symbol, use (car ARGS) as a function
> to do the work. Pass it BUFFER as first arg, and (cdr ARGS) as the
> rest of its args."
>
> Now it says, incorrectly,
> "If ARGS is a list whose car is a symbol, use (car ARGS) as a
> function to do the work. Pass it BUFFER as first argument,
> and (cdr ARGS) as second."
>
> If ARGS is a list whose car is a symbol `f', then
> `special-display-popup-frame' invokes `f', passing it as arguments,
> BUFFER followed by all of the elements in (cdr ARGS). The arity of `f'
> is the length of ARGS, not just 2. We do not pass `f' (cdr ARGS) as a
> second argument.
Indeed. Could someone please restore the old doc-string in Emacs 23?
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-14 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-13 17:11 bug#8853: 24.0.50; regression: doc string of `special-display-popup-frame' Drew Adams
2011-06-14 9:15 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2011-06-19 19:05 ` Chong Yidong
2011-06-29 16:58 ` Drew Adams
2011-06-29 23:16 ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-10 16:47 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-16 4:45 ` Chong Yidong
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