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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 10346@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10346: 24.0.92; doc string of `save-buffer'
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:13:15 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ab7a55c-4be2-4bed-ab19-7e26b7f5757a@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shy6lzb8.fsf@gnus.org>

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> >> The doc string talks about the prefix arg, but no connection is made to
> >> ARGS for use in Lisp.
> >
> > Yes.  But the values for ARG are so...  non-Lispey, I have a feeling
> > that it's been left off by choice.  The values are basically 0, 4, 16
> > and 64, which are ... kinda opaque when calling a function like that.
> >
> > I don't know.  Should these values be documented or not?
> 
> I think they're left out on purpose.  Closing.

Do you realize that you answered your own question?

This is a command.  Interactively, ARG is the numeric prefix
arg.  This should be stated in the doc string: What ARG is for
and how it is used.





      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-28 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-21 22:15 bug#10346: 24.0.92; doc string of `save-buffer' Drew Adams
2012-09-17  0:19 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-09  5:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-11 15:02   ` Drew Adams
2016-04-28 11:58   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-28 14:13     ` Drew Adams [this message]

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