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#12323: 24.2.50; doc string of `get-text-property' Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 10:13:14 -0700 Message-ID: <5E7B5DDCF40C4669B0E8D9CCA4C06533@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: ger.gmane.org 1346519636 13656 80.91.229.3 (1 Sep 2012 17:13:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 17:13:56 +0000 (UTC) To: 12323@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 01 19:13:56 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 1T7rGV-0002kM-AG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:13:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46838 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T7rGS-0000yK-EI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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It should say that it is a buffer or a string. An uninformed reader could easily imagine that it might be something else, such as a character. (Yes, a reader who knows what strings and chars are will not make that mistake. Nevertheless, the doc string should describe the acceptable OBJECT values.) In GNU Emacs 24.2.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-08-26 on MARVIN Bzr revision: 109788 dmantipov@yandex.ru-20120827041533-3cy7pdjdqz14o90c 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 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.13.1-1-dev/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8/include/libxml2'