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25.0.50; doc string of `insert-buffer-substring'

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Message #10 received at 20421-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 20421-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20421: 25.0.50; doc string of `insert-buffer-substring'
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 10:51:41 +0300

> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:19:28 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> 
> Unlike the doc string of `insert', this doc string does not explicitly
> say the following:
> 
>  Point and before-insertion markers move forward to end up
>   after the inserted text.
>  Any other markers at the point of insertion remain before the text.
> 
> It should.

Fixed.

> Here is an example where a reader did not understand some
> code, partly because, it seems, this doc string is not explicit about
> this.
> 
> http://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/10904/105

I think that reader misunderstood something else: the difference
between point and window-point.

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