GNU bug report logs - #14843
24.3.50; `line-move', `line-move-visual' need doc strings

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:42:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 14843 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 14843 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#14843: 24.3.50; `line-move', `line-move-visual' need doc
 strings
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:50:06 -0700 (PDT)

> > These functions, especially `line-move', are used all over the place.
> > They need doc strings, with complete descriptions of their parameters.
> 
> They are internal functions.  Under what circumstances did you need to
> use them directly?  Why wasn't next/previous-line enough?

Read what I wrote: they "are used all over the place".  In the Emacs code
alone, not to mention in 3rd-party code.  They are not "internal" to
simple.el.  They are not internal to anything.  Reality.
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