From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13081: 24.3.50; doc of `compare-strings' says nothing about the compare function used Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 10:44:34 -0800 Message-ID: References: <7D334704F49643BDB98A047592ED7768@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354646716 28655 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2012 18:45:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 18:45:16 +0000 (UTC) To: <13081@debbugs.gnu.org> Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 04 19:45:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TfxUj-0000xS-2Z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:45:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43093 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TfxUU-00007f-Tz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:45:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48905) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TfxUN-0008Te-RG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:45:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TfxUJ-00025I-LZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:45:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43287) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TfxUJ-00025D-G1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TfxUM-0001Ij-2N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:45:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:45:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13081 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13081-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13081.13546466844965 (code B ref 13081); Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:45:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13081) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Dec 2012 18:44:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53538 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TfxU4-0001I2-Jt for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:44:44 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:38924) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TfxU2-0001Hv-Rv for 13081@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:44:43 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id qB4IicEZ023545 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for <13081@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 4 Dec 2012 18:44:39 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qB4IicPW022429 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for <13081@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 4 Dec 2012 18:44:38 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt109.oracle.com (abhmt109.oracle.com [141.146.116.61]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id qB4Iicb9014504 for <13081@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 4 Dec 2012 12:44:38 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.232.171) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:44:37 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <7D334704F49643BDB98A047592ED7768@us.oracle.com> Thread-Index: Ac3STiHzinQ6RyhYQaiNw9gb3FyfCAAAHlAw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67908 Archived-At: 1. I should have said that the doc problem applies to both the doc string and Elisp manual. 2. What's more, the doc string says that "END1 and END2 default to". This language is incorrect - there is no defaulting. These parameters are mandatory, so they do not have any default values. What the doc should say is two things: a. START1, START2, END1, and END2 are either 0-based indexes into the string. (This information is missing.) b. START1, START2, END1, and END2 can each alternatively be nil. For START1 and START2, nil is the same as 0. For END1 and END2, nil is the same as the length of STR1 and STR2, respectively.