From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10783: Some built-in functionslost their argument names Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:14:23 -0500 Message-ID: <7h62fcmy4w.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <3tfwei753u.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8339ah1yek.fsf@gnu.org> <8qzkcpj8oi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <9nobt43fb7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83bop4zof4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329023686 27872 80.91.229.3 (12 Feb 2012 05:14:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:14:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10783@debbugs.gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 12 06:14:44 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RwRls-00041T-3M for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:14:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37087 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RwRlr-0001Gz-Lc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:14:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43133) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RwRlp-0001Gu-4X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:14:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RwRln-00021z-QD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:14:41 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:33068) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RwRln-00021v-NM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:14:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RwRn8-0005yV-2k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:16:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:16:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10783 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10783-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10783.132902375222951 (code B ref 10783); Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:16:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10783) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Feb 2012 05:15:52 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36691 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RwRmw-0005y7-Vt for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:15:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:59754 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RwRmt-0005xx-NZ for 10783@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:15:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RwRlX-00046T-EE; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:14:23 -0500 X-Spook: Taiwan doctrine quiche analyzer Roswell New World Order X-Ran: yI=3w4\(cC4apMy/_gk3h!9P!a@9W_0FFk)uF7!\Z6a-4jZ4@4~:#'9%"ng{fAyCUbazMe X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83bop4zof4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:05:51 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:56827 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> That fixes the problem on GNU/Linux. > > How and why does it do that? And what problem is that? The problem that I reported with the argument names being lost (replaced by ARG1 etc). Because help-function-arglist calls help-split-fundoc which expects to find \n\n(fn in the doc of built-in functions. It doesn't expect functions to be built-in on some platforms and not on others. Example: --- pc-win.el 2012-02-11 19:22:20.968856000 -0800 +++ pc-win.el.~1~ 2012-02-11 19:21:36.185359943 -0800 @@ -289,7 +289,9 @@ FRAME should be a frame that should own the selection. If omitted or nil, it defaults to the selected frame. -On Nextstep, FRAME is unused." +On Nextstep, FRAME is unused. + +\(fn SELECTION VALUE &optional FRAME)" (ignore-errors (x-select-text value)) value)