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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 20421-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20421: 25.0.50; doc string of `insert-buffer-substring'
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 10:51:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83siboy7aq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72ff228c-ad59-4fcc-a9d1-9109c0bb13ec@default>

> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:19:28 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 
> Unlike the doc string of `insert', this doc string does not explicitly
> say the following:
> 
>  Point and before-insertion markers move forward to end up
>   after the inserted text.
>  Any other markers at the point of insertion remain before the text.
> 
> It should.

Fixed.

> Here is an example where a reader did not understand some
> code, partly because, it seems, this doc string is not explicit about
> this.
> 
> http://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/10904/105

I think that reader misunderstood something else: the difference
between point and window-point.





  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-25  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-24 23:19 bug#20421: 25.0.50; doc string of `insert-buffer-substring' Drew Adams
2015-04-25  7:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-04-25 10:49   ` martin rudalics
2015-04-25 14:22     ` Drew Adams
2015-04-25 14:49     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-25 14:58       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-25 15:34       ` Drew Adams

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