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bug#7500: 24.0.50; doc string of `current-kill'
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#7500: 24.0.50; doc string of `current-kill' |
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Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:16:56 +0100 |
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"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Please split this long sentence, and make it comprehensible:
>
> "If N is zero, `interprogram-paste-function' is set, and calling
> it returns a string or list of strings, then that string (or
> list) is added to the front of the kill ring and the string (or
> first string in the list) is returned as the latest kill."
>
> `interprogram-paste-function' is set to what?
interprogram-paste-function should be set to a function, otherwise it
wouldn't be called interprogram-paste-function.
> to the kill-ring head?
Since when is the kill-ring head a function?
> Is "and calling it returns..." a statement of one of the _consequences_
> of N being 0, or is it a further condition for what follows: "then that
> string..." - i.e. "AND _IF_ calling it results... then..."?
"then" starts a consequence, not "and".
Andreas.
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