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#31135: 26.1; documentation of left-word and right-word are unclear Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:51:10 +0300 Message-ID: <83k1tc1i81.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878t9se6pa.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523551815 32131 195.159.176.226 (12 Apr 2018 16:50:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 31135@debbugs.gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 12 18:50:11 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 1f6fQF-0008BG-Pa for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:50:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54328 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6fSM-0004ZV-HO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6fSC-0004YC-19 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:52:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6fS8-00088N-U0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:52:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:40361) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6fS8-000889-QI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f6fS8-00010G-FE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:52:04 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:52:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 31135 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 31135-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B31135.15235518673768 (code B ref 31135); Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:52:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 31135) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Apr 2018 16:51:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48258 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f6fRC-0000yi-Uw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:51:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47159) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f6fRA-0000xq-PL for 31135@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:51:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6fR2-0007DJ-7j for 31135@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:50:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41316) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6fR2-0007DC-3I; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:50:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1594 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f6fR1-0008PR-H1; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:50:55 -0400 In-reply-to: <878t9se6pa.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:21:37 +0200) 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:145170 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:21:37 +0200 > > The documentation strings for left-word and right-word both say: > > Value is normally t. > If an edge of the buffer or a field boundary is reached, point is left there > there and the function returns nil. Field boundaries are not noticed > > > 1. Which value is normally t? This is standard Emacs parlance: left-word is a function, and functions generally return values in Lisp. So when we say "value is" in the doc string of a function, we mean the value returned by that function. > 2. 'there' is repeated in the second sentence. This kind of stuff needs to be fixed, no need to report it. Thanks.