From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:39:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83630r934x.fsf@gnu.org> <834ogb8txc.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6dn74lv.fsf@gnu.org> <83wrt770rf.fsf@gnu.org> <83pqldef1r.fsf@gnu.org> <83mxggetu6.fsf@gnu.org> <83bowwirgp.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310673572 11728 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2011 19:59:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:59:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monkey@sandpframing.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, 6576@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 14 21:59:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QhS4E-0007IS-JX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Are you sure users know what that does? No, not really. :-) I think these functions should say that they return a character, and if that's not sufficient, they should refer you to the manual to explain what Emacs means by a character. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/