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#9156: 24.0.50; `apropos' doc in Elisp manual Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:36:37 -0700 Message-ID: <63826CEAD8D342239444E86F6B6A446B@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311442690 24263 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2011 17:38:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:38:10 +0000 (UTC) To: 9156@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 23 19:38:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qkg9O-0004m6-K1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:38:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36377 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qkg9O-0006Fo-34 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:36:42 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.46.143) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:36:42 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcxJXxLXu0bt3qOMSiOFb30b+zl4ww== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 X-Source-IP: rtcsinet22.oracle.com [66.248.204.30] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090203.4E2B06B3.004B,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:38:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:49580 Archived-At: NOTE: Sending this from a different Emacs version, since bug reporting from emacs -Q is completely broken in this version: In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-07-18 on 3249CTO Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/build/include' --------------- emacs -Q (elisp) Help Functions says this in its attempt to describe command `apropos': The function returns a list of elements that look like this: (SYMBOL SCORE FN-DOC VAR-DOC PLIST-DOC WIDGET-DOC FACE-DOC GROUP-DOC) None of those introduced (meta) names is defined/described, apart from SCORE. This description of the return value is meaningless and not helpful. The doc needs to describe such terms that it introduces.