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

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: xfq.free <at> gmail.com, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 13810 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13810: 24.3.50; Docstring of `newline' is confusing
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:05:37 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Linefeed is not RET, nor "newline".  It's C-j.

Where is this documented?  I can't find "linefeed" in the index of the
Emacs manual, nor in the glossary.

>> I also found some possibility for improving the doc string of
>> `newline', and propose the attached patch.  WDYT?
>
> That's OK, but it's unrelated, isn't it?

Yes, it's somewhat tangential.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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