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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: monkey@sandpframing.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, 6576@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:34:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1QhM3X-0002UK-KF@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3sjq99fvi.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:00:17 +0200)

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org,  monkey@sandpframing.com,  6576@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:00:17 +0200
> 
> > Which other functions would need this?
> 
> `char-after', `aref' on a string, `following-char'...  Basically
> anything that returns a character.
> 
> >> Is there a specific reason this particular function deserves this
> >> detailed explanation?
> >
> > If you can suggest a better one that takes care of the original bug
> > report, please show your suggestion.
> 
> I think "close, notabug" would have taken care of the bug report.  :-)

The original problem which triggered the report was this part, and
this part only:

    A multibyte character is handled correctly.

To make a decent job for this bug, we need, as a minimum, to do
something with this unparsable sentence.  I admit that my suggestion
went well beyond that, but if we want to take a step back, please
suggest what to say instead.  I hope you agree that this sentence
cannot be left as-is.

(To know what is meant by this sentence, look at the source of the
function.)





  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-14 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-06 21:34 bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect MON KEY
2010-07-07  7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-07  8:40   ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-07 10:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-07 12:16       ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-07 14:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-07 15:46           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-13 23:50             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14  2:13               ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-14 13:02                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14  3:06               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 13:00                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 13:34                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-07-14 14:06                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 15:59                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 16:12                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 19:37                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 19:39                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-15 19:06                               ` MON KEY
2011-07-21 18:38                                 ` Chong Yidong

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