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24.5; Missing definition for predicate `buffer-or-string-p'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tino Calancha <f92capac <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 01:45:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.5

Done: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Tino Calancha <f92capac <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21390 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21390: 24.5; Missing definition for predicate `buffer-or-string-p'
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:45:04 -0400

Tino Calancha wrote:

> Predicate `buffer-or-string-p' is declared but definition is missing in:
> emacs-24.5/src/data.c

I guess you are referring to the fact that src/data.c contains

  DEFSYM (Qbuffer_or_string_p, "buffer-or-string-p")

This is used in CHECK_STRING_OR_BUFFER in textprop.c.
The simple presence of the DEFSYM is not by itself motivation for the
addition of a "buffer-or-string-p" predicate.

If you think such a thing is needed, you need to eg show how many places
in the current lisp sources would use it. And then if added it needs to
be documented too.
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