GNU bug report logs - #15865
24.3.50; doc string of `recursive-edit' - mention `throw' of any value

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:06:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 24.4

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.50; doc string of `recursive-edit' - mention `throw' of any value
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:04:40 -0800 (PST)

The doc string gives the impression that the only possibilities to "get
out of the recursive edit" are to throw nil or t. (elisp) `Recursive
Edit' is much clearer.  Say explicitly that `recursive-edit' does
`catch' and it returns the value thrown to `exit', except if t or nil.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2013-10-19 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 114715 rgm <at> gnu.org-20131019023520-s8mwtib7xcx9e05w
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --enable-checking 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 106 days ago.

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