Subject: Re: 23.0.60; doc string of dired-get-marked-files

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:39:40 -0400

> The doc string says this about optional arg ARG:
> 
> Optional second argument arg specifies files near point
>  instead of marked files.  If arg is an integer, use the next arg files.
>   If arg is otherwise non-nil, use file.  Usually arg comes from
>   the command's prefix arg.
> 
> This is not correct, or at least it is incomplete.

It is correct, because of the word "instead": if ARG is non-nil, it
modifies the behavior of the function.

I fixed the doc string to make this distinction clearer, and to prevent
similar confusion.