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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 24979@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24979: 24.5; Doc string of `current-word'
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:24:56 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d144109b-5a29-4b6c-b984-10a0d7106f94@default> (raw)

This part of the doc string is wrong:

 The function, belying its name, normally finds a symbol.


1. There is no "normally".  Do you mean often?  Usually?  Sometimes?
   (When?)

2. It always returns a string, never a symbol.  A symbol is a Lisp
   object.  If you mean that it often returns a string that has symbol,
   not word, syntax, then say so.  That does not mean that it returns a
   symbol.  Yes, the first line of the doc now says that it returns a
   string.  This means that the doc as a whole is currently confusing
   and inconsistent.


In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'





             reply	other threads:[~2016-11-21 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-21 18:24 Drew Adams [this message]
2016-11-25  9:52 ` bug#24979: 24.5; Doc string of `current-word' Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<d144109b-5a29-4b6c-b984-10a0d7106f94@default>
     [not found] ` <<83fumf51k7.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-11-25 15:36   ` Drew Adams

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