GNU bug report logs - #14154
24.3.50; doc string of `other-buffer'

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

Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 04:12:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3.50

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

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Andreas Schwab'" <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 14154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14154: 24.3.50; doc string of `other-buffer'
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 01:43:13 -0700

> > Does not say what the behavior of BUFFER=nil is/means/does,
> 
> "Ignore the argument BUFFER unless it denotes a live buffer."

Meaningless - that's no help by itself, and nothing else in the doc string comes
to its aid.

Ignore it and do what?  Return which buffer?  A buffer other than which in this
case?

See (elisp) `The Buffer List', for a start.
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