GNU bug report logs - #4116
lisp/format.el (format-alist): a miswording in the docstring?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ivan Shmakov <oneingray <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:50:04 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 22.3

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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From: Ivan Shmakov <oneingray <at> gmail.com>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Ivan Shmakov <oneingray <at> gmail.com>
Subject: lisp/format.el (format-alist): a miswording in the docstring?
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:40:00 +0700

Package: emacs
Version: 22.3
Severity: minor

	lisp/format.el reads:

$ wget -qO - 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/plain/lisp/format.el?h=EMACS_22_BASE&id=c76887af64070fbe50d854b6a794c9d93e3982f4' \
      | nl -ba 
...
   118	REGEXP  is a regular expression to match against the beginning of the file;
   119	        it should match only files in that format.  Use nil to avoid
   120	        matching at all for formats for which it isn't appropriate to
   121	        require explicit encoding/decoding.
...
$ 

	I guess that there should rather be:

    ... for which it is appropriate...

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 4116-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4116: lisp/format.el (format-alist): a miswording in the docstring?
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:10:03 -0400

Thanks, I have clarified the doc.
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