From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: 50644@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50644: Ungrokkable argument names in string-replace
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:08:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf3vjm8x.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
Especially INSTRING is hard to parse in:
-- Function: string-replace fromstring tostring instring
This function replaces all occurrences of FROMSTRING with TOSTRING
in INSTRING and returns the result. It may return one of its
arguments unchanged, a constant string or a new string. Case is
significant, and text properties are ignored.
Whereas other functions like perform-replace use ‘-’ to separate words,
e.g. “FROM-STRING”:
-- Function: perform-replace from-string replacements query-flag
regexp-flag delimited-flag &optional repeat-count map start
end backward region-noncontiguous-p
This function is the guts of ‘query-replace’ and related commands.
It searches for occurrences of FROM-STRING in the text between
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2021-09-17 16:08 Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-09-17 16:25 ` bug#50644: Ungrokkable argument names in string-replace Lars Ingebrigtsen
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