GNU bug report logs - #25462
Out of date doc string for "`".

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:32:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 25462 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 25462 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25462: Out of date doc string for "`".
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:52:36 -0500

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> wrote:
> Hello, Emacs.
>
> The doc string for "`" has become partial.
>
> It fails to mention that "`" has a radically different meaning when used
> in certain parts of a `pcase', and probably quite a few other similar
> macros.

I don't think that makes sense. Similarly, we don't add a mention of
`cl-loop's use of `if' in the docstring of `if', because that's not
part of the `if' special form. It's just a use of `if' as a plain
symbol.
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