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bug#9156: 24.0.50; `apropos' doc in Elisp manual
From: |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#9156: 24.0.50; `apropos' doc in Elisp manual |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:38:45 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> (elisp) Help Functions says this in its attempt to describe command
> `apropos':
>
> The function returns a list of elements that look like this:
>
> (SYMBOL SCORE FN-DOC VAR-DOC
> PLIST-DOC WIDGET-DOC FACE-DOC GROUP-DOC)
>
> None of those introduced (meta) names is defined/described, apart from
> SCORE. This description of the return value is meaningless and not
> helpful. The doc needs to describe such terms that it introduces.
I know nothing about any of this, but it's obvious to me that "VAR-DOC"
means "documentation of the symbol if it's a variable", and so on. The
only thing that needs further documentation is SCORE, which is
documented.
So I don't think this is a bug.
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