From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: return of replace-match Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:58:30 +0000 Message-ID: <871tygkj3d.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> References: <87txbe58k7.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87lhwpt86q.fsf@gmail.com> <878usphuqr.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394017148 19193 80.91.229.3 (5 Mar 2014 10:59:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alex Kost , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Bastien Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 11:59:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WL9Xg-0001tB-R3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:59:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51239 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WL9Xg-0006Rr-FC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:59:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40867) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WL9XR-0006Qv-MV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:59:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WL9XM-0000ON-NE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:59:01 -0500 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:48236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WL9XM-0000O7-Gb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:58:56 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129]) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1WL9XK-0001Bc-Ef; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:58:54 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost (jangai.ncl.ac.uk [10.66.67.223]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s25Awsem019842 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:58:54 GMT In-Reply-To: <878usphuqr.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien's message of "Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:15:08 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.22 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96263 Archived-At: Bastien writes: > Alex Kost writes: > >> It looks correct to me. When the docstring tells nothing about the >> returning value, it may be anything and you shouldn't rely on it. > > IIUC, the problem here is that the docstring says it will return `t' > and return `nil' instead. I guess that's just a documentation bug. The docstring doesn't say anything. The elisp manual says "returns `t`". I'll send a bug report.