GNU bug report logs - #10783
Some built-in functions lost their argument names

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10783 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: bug#10783: Some built-in functionslost their argument names
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:02:45 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: schwab <at> linux-m68k.org,  10783 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:40:13 -0500
> 
> I was also thinking that there would not be many users of the MS-DOS
> build wanting to look at the doc of the x-* functions

I don't understand how this would be TRT.  The MS-DOS build of Emacs
supports the clipboard, so these functions are there not just for
beauty.

> Eg there are already many compat x-* functions without docs in
> pc-win.el.

They all lack a doc string in their X versions as well, AFAICS.

> I wonder if it helps if to also add the "(fn ..." part to the end of
> the pc-win.el doc strings?

Sorry, I don't follow.  Can you give an example?

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