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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 8422@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8422: 24.0.50; doc of `apropos-internal'
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:33:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpniowea.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CC80D6D3D4944B62BBEAF810B44E3741@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:13:39 -0700")

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Please add to the doc string some info about what the context is
> when/where PREDICATE is invoked.  Suppose, for instance, you wanted to
> use a PREDICATE such as this:
>
> (lambda (c)
>   (and (commandp c)
>        (where-is-internal c overriding-local-map 'non-ascii))
>
> The behavior of the PREDICATE depends on which buffer is current when it
> is invoked.  Can we assume that the buffer is the same one as when
> `apropos-internal' was invoked?  Likewise wrt the selected window.
>
> To find this info, users currently need to look at the C source code.

Uhm...  no.  As far as I can see, apropos-internal does nothing weird
like changing buffers or windows?  So it would be rather odd to document
that it doesn't do <one weird thing>.  Other mapping functions like
`sort' certainly doesn't.  Closing.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-28 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-04 16:13 bug#8422: 24.0.50; doc of `apropos-internal' Drew Adams
2011-07-15 12:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-28 10:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-04-28 13:48   ` Drew Adams

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