From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:37:26 +0300 Message-ID: <83bowwirgp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83630r934x.fsf@gnu.org> <834ogb8txc.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6dn74lv.fsf@gnu.org> <83wrt770rf.fsf@gnu.org> <83pqldef1r.fsf@gnu.org> <83mxggetu6.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310674034 14597 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2011 20:07:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:07:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monkey@sandpframing.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, 6576@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 14 22:07:09 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 1QhSBh-0003Kp-BE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:07:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52178 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QhSBg-0001RV-54 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:07:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QhRid-0000oO-AW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:37:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QhRiZ-0004va-0I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:60900) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QhRiY-0004vT-Lw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QhRiY-0007Hb-Cc; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:37:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:37:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6576 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6576-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6576.131067221027977 (code B ref 6576); Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:37:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6576) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Jul 2011 19:36:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QhRiL-0007HB-Kn for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:36:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QhRiJ-0007Gz-TV for 6576@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:36:48 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LOC000008ZN4300@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 6576@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:35:20 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.156.102]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LOC00NDJ92V3S40@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:35:20 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:37:02 -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:49077 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, monkey@sandpframing.com, 6576@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:12:24 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > If you delete it, how would users know what does this function do with > > unibyte strings? What numerical value will it return when passed a > > unibyte string? > > Isn't the same the case with `char-after' in a unibyte buffer, for > instance? Yes, but so what? Are you sure users know what that does?