GNU bug report logs - #42776
Obscure documentation of `edebug-form-data' in edebug.el

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2020 15:04:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

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 #14 received at 42776 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: acm <at> muc.de, 42776 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42776: Obscure documentation of `edebug-form-data' in
 edebug.el
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 23:15:53 +0100

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

> "Of an instrumented form", I guess?  Any reason not to modify the doc
> string with that?

Looking at the code, that does seem to be the intended meaning (I
think), so I've now made that change.

>> > Less major questions are: What is the nature of the "association" of the
>> > symbols with the buffer regions?  Which buffer gets its regions
>> > associated?
>
> The buffer in which the instrumented form lives.  IOW, the source code
> of the form you instrumented.

Yup.  And I think that's everything covered?  So I'm closing this bug report.

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