From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9156: 24.0.50; `apropos' doc in Elisp manual Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:55:07 +0800 Message-ID: <87obsvnz9g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <63826CEAD8D342239444E86F6B6A446B@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329630967 16006 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2012 05:56:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:56:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9156@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 19 06:56:06 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryzkk-0008Dx-Pv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:56:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43750 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryzkj-0007Go-MH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:56:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45357) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryzkf-0007Fw-2s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:56:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryzkd-0006H9-Pz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:56:01 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41459) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryzkd-0006H5-Mr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:55:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryzmc-0003vR-BX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:58:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:58:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9156 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 9156-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9156.132963104215025 (code B ref 9156); Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:58:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9156) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Feb 2012 05:57:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45079 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryzlx-0003uI-Fl for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:57:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:51621 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryzlv-0003uB-LD for 9156@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:57:20 -0500 Original-Received: from bb121-6-68-155.singnet.com.sg ([121.6.68.155]:36442 helo=furball) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryzjv-0002ut-Jq; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:55:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <63826CEAD8D342239444E86F6B6A446B@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:36:37 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:57000 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > (elisp) Help Functions says this in its attempt to describe command > `apropos': > > The function returns a list of elements that look like this: > > (SYMBOL SCORE FN-DOC VAR-DOC > PLIST-DOC WIDGET-DOC FACE-DOC GROUP-DOC) > > None of those introduced (meta) names is defined/described, apart from > SCORE. This description of the return value is meaningless and not > helpful. The doc needs to describe such terms that it introduces. They are now described. Closing.