From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#30634: 26.0; doc string of `dired-do-create-files' Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:32:45 +0200 Message-ID: <83fu5jyfoi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ca87d4-9cde-4250-a2bb-b5d22c2452f2@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1519918403 1118 195.159.176.226 (1 Mar 2018 15:33:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 30634-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 01 16:33:19 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1erQCq-0007zp-Pv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:33:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57622 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erQEt-0000ul-9V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:35:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50744) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erQCh-0007y2-0r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:33:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erQCd-0004Wb-2D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:33:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:59797) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erQCc-0004WK-Tq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:33:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1erQCc-0002aQ-Mi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:33:02 -0500 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:33:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 30634 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 30634@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com Original-Received: via spool by 30634-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D30634.15199183699916 (code D ref 30634); Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:33:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 30634-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Mar 2018 15:32:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39460 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1erQCO-0002Zs-T2 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:32:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59610) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1erQCN-0002Zf-J5 for 30634-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:32:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erQCC-0004Jr-Is for 30634-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:32:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54742) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erQCC-0004Jn-Ei; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:32:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4676 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1erQCB-0000Hx-Eh; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:32:36 -0500 In-reply-to: <87ca87d4-9cde-4250-a2bb-b5d22c2452f2@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:12:18 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:143784 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:12:18 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > > The doc string says this, where "into-dir" is the only occurrence of > that text in the doc string: > > The rest of into-dir are optional arguments. > > This is incomprehensible. Yes, in the _code_ of the function there is > an internal, local variable named `into-dir', but it makes no sense to > refer to that in the doc string. Thanks, fixed. > (The entire description of arg HOW-TO is too complicated, particularly > the "Otherwise" part. Apparently in this case HOW-TO is a function. If > that function returns a non-nil list then its car is a function of 4 > args... An example or two might help.) I didn't see it as overly complicated, I think it's very clear.