From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>,
"Robert Pluim" <rpluim@gmail.com>,
"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: master 583cb26 2/3: Improve accuracy in string-replace description (bug#43598)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:47:52 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a48b8e87-7121-4f78-80c0-207b19218d40@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJnXXoheYuUtgPFZ3e3OeQimDK+vbh51N5WZgd-R97WnQCuf_Q@mail.gmail.com>
> > > What do you find extremely confusing about it?
> >
> > The "equal" part.
>
> Return a string equivalent to @var{instring} with every occurence
> of @var{fromstring} replaced by @var{tostring}.
"Equivalent" is unclear. In what way equivalent?
`equal' and `string-equal' are clear. They say just
what we mean here by "equivalent".
INSTRING and the returned string are `equal', modulo
the differences specified by FROMSTRING and TOSTRING.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-28 22:47 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20200927124522.BA20F207E0@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-09-28 9:42 ` master 583cb26 2/3: Improve accuracy in string-replace description (bug#43598) Robert Pluim
2020-09-28 9:59 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-09-28 11:09 ` Robert Pluim
[not found] ` <CAJnXXojjUAcRVmsZNWQ2j9rSDv76Y0od4yWfVg11k-Q2tf4NYA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-09-28 13:50 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-28 16:36 ` John Yates
2020-09-28 16:49 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-28 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 17:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-28 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 22:36 ` John Yates
2020-09-28 22:47 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-09-29 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29 4:28 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-29 5:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29 15:28 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-29 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29 7:12 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-29 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29 15:23 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-29 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 17:44 ` John Yates
2020-09-29 13:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-29 14:08 ` Mattias Engdegård
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