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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
	"59934@debbugs.gnu.org" <59934@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#59934: 28.2; Doc strings of `(kill|delete)-matching-lines'
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:48:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkaqgj08qkmRQGvdO2TBS50fuMD0fkLxsYhmMD0Nuhd2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB5488F874EC5C511386056421F31C9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 9 Dec 2022 23:14:30 +0000")

close 59934 29.1
thanks

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

> The docstring of `kill-matching-lines' already says (just at the end):
>
>   If you merely want to delete the lines, without adding them to
>   the kill ring, the M-x flush-lines command is faster.
>
> True. What's missing there is the name correspondence/similarity.
> I think it would be more helpful if it used `M-x delete-matching-lines'.
> Following that link, a user would see that the other name for that is `flush-lines'.
> but the one for `delete-matching-lines'/`flush-lines' does not mention the kill- version.

Thanks, I fixed that on emacs-29 (commit 489bcacc7c).





  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-13  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-09 22:51 bug#59934: 28.2; Doc strings of `(kill|delete)-matching-lines' Drew Adams
2022-12-09 23:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-12-09 23:14   ` Drew Adams
2022-12-13  0:48     ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-12-13  1:20     ` Stefan Kangas

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