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From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
To: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Docstring of `decode-coding-string' a bit misleading about	insertion in buffer
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:43:12 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KrsEC-0007Fr-RG@etlken.m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0810200121g7491defcx5b549c7e96d38bf0@mail.gmail.com> (lekktu@gmail.com)

In article <f7ccd24b0810200121g7491defcx5b549c7e96d38bf0@mail.gmail.com>, "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:12, Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> wrote:
> > Anyway, if we
> > write "inserted in buffer (after point and markers)", I
> > think it means the text is inserted without moving point and
> > markers.

> I'm sure it means that. I think I would still have missed it, because
> I misread the "inserted" as related to `insert', which moves the
> point.

> I would just add "The point does not move." or somesuch. But I'm not
> good writing docs.

Me neither.  Could someone please improve these docstrings?
  encode-coding-region
  decode-coding-region
  encode-coding-string
  decode-coding-string

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp




  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-20 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-17 14:19 Docstring of `decode-coding-string' a bit misleading about insertion in buffer Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-20  7:04 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-20  7:18   ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-20  8:12     ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-20  8:21       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-20 10:43         ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2008-10-21 15:57           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-21 22:47             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-22  1:23             ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-20 17:04         ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-21  2:53           ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-21 19:40             ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-20 17:04         ` Richard M. Stallman

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