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#13081: 24.3.50; doc of `compare-strings' says nothing about the compare function used Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 10:35:28 -0800 Message-ID: <7D334704F49643BDB98A047592ED7768@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 1354646173 23529 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2012 18:36:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 18:36:13 +0000 (UTC) To: 13081@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 04 19:36:26 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 1TfxM1-0005Xv-8N for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:36:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34638 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TfxLp-0003Tk-7c for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Is lexicographic order used? How can you document a function about comparing two sequences without defining/mentioning the helper function that is used to compare two elements, one from each sequence? In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-12-03 on MS-W7-DANI Bzr revision: 111077 agustin.martin@hispalinux.es-20121203172342-ifsebjmhksk28qa9 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags -Ic:/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.10/include -Ic:/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.10/src -Ic:/emacs/libs/libpng-1.2.37-lib/include -Ic:/emacs/libs/zlib-1.2.5 -Ic:/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1-lib/include -Ic:/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4-lib/include -Ic:/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1-lib/include -Ic:/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8-w32-bin/include/libxml2 -Ic:/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9-w32-bin/include -Ic:/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.9.2-1-lib/include'