GNU bug report logs - #12624
24.1.50; docstring of set-buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:42:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.1.50

Fixed in version 24.3

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.1.50; docstring of set-buffer
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:40:11 -0500

There have been various discussions that often set-buffer should not be
combined with save-excursion, but better with save-current-buffer or
with-current-buffer. By chance I looked at the docstring of set-buffer,
which (still) says

  See also `save-excursion' when you want to make a buffer current
  temporarily.

Shouldn't this be changed to something like

  See also `save-current-buffer' and `with-current-buffer'...


In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2012-07-19 on lukas
Bzr revision: 109157 dmantipov <at> yandex.ru-20120719085653-jqi71da9zh0vjtit
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 227 days ago.

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