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#12674: 24.2.50; doc of `locate-file' Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:28:15 -0700 Message-ID: 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 1350577788 32157 80.91.229.3 (18 Oct 2012 16:29:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:29:48 +0000 (UTC) To: 12674@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 18 18:29:55 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 1TOsym-0004En-UL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:29:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35306 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TOsyf-0002u9-Qg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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The doc string is generally OK, except for its second sentence. This part of the second sentence is not clear (meaningless, misleading): ", with its suffixes". It's unclear what that might mean (return the absolute file name, plus a list of its suffixes?). But it certainly cannot mean what really happens: the absolute file name is returned, including ONE of the suffixes if appropriate. Just say what the manual says: the absolute file name is returned: If it finds such a file, it returns the file's absolute file name; otherwise it returns `nil'. In GNU Emacs 24.2.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-10-15 on DANI-PC Bzr revision: 110553 monnier@iro.umontreal.ca-20121015164957-6zms5w2js1xkldtg Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags -I../../libs/libxpm-3.5.8/include -I../../libs/libxpm-3.5.8/src -I../../libs/libpng-1.4.10 -I../../libs/zlib-1.2.6 -I../../libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -I../../libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -I../../libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -I../../libs/libxml2-2.7.8-w32-bin/include/libxml2 -I../../libs/gnutls-3.0.16/include -I../../libs/libiconv-1.14-2-mingw32-dev/include'