GNU bug report logs - #13810
24.3.50; Docstring of `newline' is confusing

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:06:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 13810 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>, 13810 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13810: 24.3.50; Docstring of `newline' is confusing
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:43:55 +0100

On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:30:50 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> The doc string of newline says "Call `auto-fill-function'..."; you can
>> only call a function, not a variable (I suppose you can call a variable
>> something, but not just call it).
>
> Yet, I think that newline doesn't call the `auto-fill-function'
> function, but the function contained in the
> `auto-fill-function' variable.

Still, it doesn't "call the variable" ;-).  Anyway, isn't the potential
for confusion here rather limited, since the function auto-fill-function
is a noop just there for its doc string?

Steve Berman
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