From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: monkey@sandpframing.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, 6576@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:06:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pqldef1r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3sjq9ivto.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, monkey@sandpframing.com, 6576@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:50:59 +0200
>
> > "Return the codepoint of the first character of STRING.
> >
> > Value is the Unicode codepoint, if it is below #x110000 (in hex).
> > Codepoints beyond that are Emacs extensions of Unicode. In
> > particular, eight-bit characters are returned as codepoints in
> > the range #x3FFF80 through #x3FFFFF, inclusive."
>
> I've now installed a slight variation on this in Emacs 24.
>
> But after checking it in, I started wondering whether this doc string
> really makes sense. The function returns an Emacs character, and it
> would be rather weird if all functions that take or return an Emacs
> character goes through that entire explanation.
Which other functions would need this?
> Is there a specific reason this particular function deserves this
> detailed explanation?
If you can suggest a better one that takes care of the original bug
report, please show your suggestion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-14 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-06 21:34 bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect MON KEY
2010-07-07 7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-07 8:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-07 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-07 12:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-07 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-07 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-13 23:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 2:13 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-14 13:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 3:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-07-14 13:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 14:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 16:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 19:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-15 19:06 ` MON KEY
2011-07-21 18:38 ` Chong Yidong
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