GNU bug report logs - #29278
Incorrect documentation of ido-find-alternate-file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>

Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 23:13:01 UTC

Severity: minor

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

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From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
To: 29278 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29278: Incorrect documentation of ido-find-alternate-file
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 18:12:18 -0500

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The docstring of ido-find-alternate-file is wrong:

;;;###autoload
(defun ido-find-file-other-window ()
  "Switch to another file and show it in another window.
The file name is selected interactively by typing a substring.
For details of keybindings, see `ido-find-file'."
  (interactive)
  (ido-file-internal 'other-window 'find-file-other-window))

;;;###autoload
(defun ido-find-alternate-file ()
  "Switch to another file and show it in another window.
The file name is selected interactively by typing a substring.
For details of keybindings, see `ido-find-file'."
  (interactive)
  (ido-file-internal 'alt-file 'find-alternate-file nil "Find alternate file: "))

The first line of ido-find-alternate-file could be changed to "Find file FILENAME, select its buffer, kill previous buffer." to fix this.

Cheers,
Clément.


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