GNU bug report logs - #16106
24.3.50; doc of `replace-match'

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:57:01 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 #16 received at 16106 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 16106 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#16106: 24.3.50; doc of `replace-match'
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:56:25 -0800 (PST)

> Most things in Emacs and Lisp in general are zero-based.
> It is not obvious that this is one-based.  And Oth and zeroth
> make as much sense as 1th and oneth.  If counting is zero-based
> then the 0th element is exactly that: the entry that is indexed
> by the number zero.

Let me put it differently: Is there a good reason NOT to say that
"N is a digit from 1 through 9"?
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