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#8655: 24.0.50; doc of previous-single-char-property-change Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 09:22:15 -0700 Message-ID: <7C50D2FF793F47CBBDCD6A5B7B31CA10@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 1305130991 22657 80.91.229.12 (11 May 2011 16:23:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 16:23:11 +0000 (UTC) To: 8655@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 11 18:23:07 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 1QKCBn-0004VS-1n for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 18:23:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57750 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QKCBm-0002av-I4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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EXCEPT for this phrase, which is identical in the two doc strings: "return LIMIT if nothing is found before LIMIT." The problem is the ambiguity of "before". Change the wording to "before reaching LIMIT" and there is no problem. In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-05-10 on 3249CTO Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/build/include'