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24.1; doc string of `map-char-table'

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: 12061 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12061: 24.1; doc string of `map-char-table'
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:56:45 -0700

The doc string does not describe the VALUE parameter of FUNCTION: what
its type is or what it does/means.  How can someone use `map-char-table'
and come up with a FUNCTION without knowing what the parameters are for?
 
This information, from the Elisp manual, is apparently missing:
 
 "The value is what `(char-table-range CHAR-TABLE KEY)' returns."
 
But even that does not seem to be enough to make sense of FUNCTION.

In GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2012-06-10 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --cflags
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include'
 

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