GNU bug report logs - #11542
24.0.97; doc string of `save-current-buffer'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 18:31:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.97

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 11542 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11542: 24.0.97; doc string of `save-current-buffer'
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:07:37 +0800

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> The doc string, like the description in the Elisp manual, should speak
> not in terms of saving the buffer but in terms of saving the indentity
> of the current buffer.  Since even that is a bit ambiguous, it is even
> better to speak in terms of remembering which buffer is current.

Fixed in trunk.
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 341 days ago.

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