GNU bug report logs - #24312
25.1.50; doc string of `tags-query-replace' - wrong signature

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

Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:38:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.1.50

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #24 received at 24312 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 24312 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#24312: 25.1.50; doc string of `tags-query-replace' - wrong
 signature
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:52:47 -0700 (PDT)

> >  Fifth and sixth arguments START and END are accepted, for compatibility
> >  with ‘query-replace-regexp’, and ignored.
> 
> AFAICT, the doc is wrong, because the arguments are not
> accepted/ignored. Did I miss something?
> 
> (let ((from 1)(to 2)(delimited 3)(file-list-form 4)(start 5)(end 6))
>   (tags-query-replace from to delimited file-list-form start end)) ;=>
> Wrong number of arguments: (2 . 4), 6

Good catch.  So presumably, assuming that the code behaves as intended,
that sentence should just be removed from the doc.
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