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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 33179@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33179: 26; Doc string of `filter-buffer-substring'
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 12:10:15 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c1ed257-be78-4355-84a1-572cfa1d3af6@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83in1nmdae.fsf@gnu.org>>

> > IIUC, the meaning of "extract" in this sentence is to exclude the
> > chars from the result.
> 
> No, I don't think it means that.  It means "take".

Then I don't understand the "and should not be copied
into other buffers" part.  I thought that text describes
a situation where you want to return some parts, for
copying to another buffer, and you want to exclude other
parts from that copying.

By "copying into other buffers" does we mean copy+paste
here?  What kind of copying is meant?

In sum, it's not clear to me what that "For example..."
sentence is trying to describe.  I thought I had some
idea, but that was apparently the wrong idea.





       reply	other threads:[~2018-10-27 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<08b6c241-7972-48e3-b354-95b6cb50fe52@default>
     [not found] ` <<83in1nmdae.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-10-27 19:10   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-10-27 19:25     ` bug#33179: 26; Doc string of `filter-buffer-substring' Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-27 19:32     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-27 19:38       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-27 17:24 Drew Adams
2018-10-27 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <<8c1ed257-be78-4355-84a1-572cfa1d3af6@default>
     [not found]     ` <<87h8h7jicd.fsf@gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <<83d0rvmb7r.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-10-27 21:35         ` Drew Adams
2018-10-27 21:59           ` Noam Postavsky

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