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24.1.50; docstring of set-buffer

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#12624: closed (Re: bug#12624: 24.1.50; docstring of set-buffer)
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:50:05 +0000

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Your bug report

#12624: 24.1.50; docstring of set-buffer

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 12624-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12624: 24.1.50; docstring of set-buffer
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:48:52 -0400

Version: 24.3

Thanks, I changed it to say `with-current-buffer' instead.

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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
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