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bug#31135: 26.1; documentation of left-word and right-word are unclear
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#31135: 26.1; documentation of left-word and right-word are unclear |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:51:10 +0300 |
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:21:37 +0200
>
> The documentation strings for left-word and right-word both say:
>
> Value is normally t.
> If an edge of the buffer or a field boundary is reached, point is left there
> there and the function returns nil. Field boundaries are not noticed
>
>
> 1. Which value is normally t?
This is standard Emacs parlance: left-word is a function, and
functions generally return values in Lisp. So when we say "value is"
in the doc string of a function, we mean the value returned by that
function.
> 2. 'there' is repeated in the second sentence.
This kind of stuff needs to be fixed, no need to report it.
Thanks.