GNU bug report logs - #15115
24.3.50; doc of `skip-syntax-backward'

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:05:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 24.4

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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 15115 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15115: 24.3.50; doc of `skip-syntax-backward'
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:12:59 -0800

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Both the doc string and (elisp) Motion and Syntax speak incorrectly of
> the value returned by this function.  They say that the value is the
> "distance traveled" and that it is zero or less.
>
> It is zero or less, and its *absolute value* is the distance traveled
> backward.  (No negative distances, at least not in this geometry.)

Fixed on trunk.

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