GNU bug report logs - #12325
24.2.50; doc of `replace-match' for STRING case

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

Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 19:58:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.2.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 12325-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 12325-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12325: 24.2.50; doc of `replace-match' for STRING case
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:26:55 +0800

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

> The doc, both the doc string and the Elisp manual entry, is not
> sufficiently clear that for the non-nil STRING case `replace-match' does
> NOT modify STRING but returns a new string.
>  
> That the function returns a new string is said, but that statement is
> buried among other statements that give the impression that STRING is
> modified.

Fixed in trunk.
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