Subject: bug#10634: `forward-list' scan error

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:05:45 +0200

> From: Marcin Borkowski <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 22:02:11 +0100
> 
> > - emacs -Q
> > - switch to *scratch*
> > - in the following code:
> >
> > (abc (def) (ghi) lmn)
> >
> > `forward-list' fails in different positions, for instance (| is point):
> >
> > (abc (|d|e|f|) (ghi) lmn)
> >
> > Software: GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of
> > 2011-12-10 on debian
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> while I can easily reproduce this on current Emacs (25.1.50.1), I'm not
> sure whether this is really a bug.  (Maybe it is a bug in the
> docstring?)

Can you propose a suitable change to the doc string?  (We should
probably make similar changes in other related commands in lisp.el.)

Thanks.