* bug#19255: 25.0.50; doc string of `compare-buffer-substrings' @ 2014-12-02 17:31 Drew Adams 2016-04-30 16:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen 2016-04-30 16:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Drew Adams @ 2014-12-02 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 19255 All that is given to describe the parameters is the vague statement that "Each substring is represented as three arguments: BUFFER, START and END." Represented how? It should say that each substring is the text in BUFFERN from STARTN to ENDN, for N=1,2. In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2014-10-20 on LEG570 Bzr revision: 118168 rgm@gnu.org-20141020195941-icp42t8ttcnud09g Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: `configure --enable-checking=yes,glyphs CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1' ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* bug#19255: 25.0.50; doc string of `compare-buffer-substrings' 2014-12-02 17:31 bug#19255: 25.0.50; doc string of `compare-buffer-substrings' Drew Adams @ 2016-04-30 16:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen 2016-04-30 16:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2016-04-30 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 19255 Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes: > All that is given to describe the parameters is the vague statement that > "Each substring is represented as three arguments: BUFFER, START and > END." Represented how? It should say that each substring is the text > in BUFFERN from STARTN to ENDN, for N=1,2. I just changed it to The first substring is in BUFFER1 from START1 to END1 and the second is in BUFFER2 from START2 to END2. No math necessary. :-) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* bug#19255: 25.0.50; doc string of `compare-buffer-substrings' 2014-12-02 17:31 bug#19255: 25.0.50; doc string of `compare-buffer-substrings' Drew Adams 2016-04-30 16:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2016-04-30 16:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2016-04-30 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 19255 The text had remained unchanged from 1993. Sacrilege! -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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