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Re: message's docstring
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David Kastrup |
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Re: message's docstring |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:16:22 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:
> Two slight inconsistencies/problems in message's docstring:
>
> 1) It says:
>
> DEFUN ("message", Fmessage, Smessage, 1, MANY, 0,
> doc: /* Print a one-line message at the bottom of the screen.
>
> Why "a one-line message"? There's nothing stopping
>
> (message "line 1\nline 2")
>
> for working, or even
>
> (message "%s\n%s" "line1" "line2")
>
> 2) The docstring doesn't mention that the message is returned.
> However, several modules do rely on it (files.el, for example, has
> "(y-or-n-p (message ...))".
That sounds nonsensical. Shouldn't this be
(y-or-n-p (format ...))
instead?
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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