GNU bug report logs - #25603
24.5; doc of `woman'

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 17:36:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 25.2

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: 25603 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25603: 24.5; doc of `woman'
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 09:35:13 -0800 (PST)

The doc string says this:

 The directory expansions and topics are cached for
 speed, but a non-nil interactive argument forces the caches to be
 updated (e.g. to re-interpret the current directory).

That ("a non-nil interactive argument") is not the way Emacs talks about
the prefix argument.  The doc should say that if you use a prefix
argument then the cached is updated.

Essentially, "non-nil interactive argument" should be "prefix argument".

In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'
This bug report was last modified 8 years and 92 days ago.

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