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bug#6787: Documentation: `kill-region' is not a primitive despite docstr
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bug#6787: Documentation: `kill-region' is not a primitive despite docstring assertion otherwise |
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Tue, 3 Aug 2010 14:43:20 -0400 |
Docstring of `kill-region' describes itself as a primitive.
With Emacs lisp's conventional context for the term "primitive" this isn't so.
,---- (documentation 'kill-region)
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| {...}
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| This is the primitive for programs to kill text (as opposed to deleting it).
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| {...}
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`----
(subrp 'kill-region)
=> nil
,---- (info "(elisp)Primitive Function Type")
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| A "primitive function" is a function callable from Lisp but written in
| the C programming language. Primitive functions are also called
| "subrs" or "built-in functions". (The word "subr" is derived from
| "subroutine.")
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`----
Problem is current throgh Bzr-100920
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