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bug#12416: 24.2; doc string of `line-beginning-position'
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Chong Yidong |
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bug#12416: 24.2; doc string of `line-beginning-position' |
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Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:29:21 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> This makes it sound like a value of 1 is some kind of exception:
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> "With argument N not nil or 1, move forward N - 1 lines first."
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> Actually, 1 is treated like any other number N.
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> The exception is nil. And to document that we should simply say that
> the default value of N is 1. That takes care of two places where we
> talk about "if N is nil or 1".
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> IOW, this doc is unnecessarily complicated.
Fixed in trunk.