GNU bug report logs - #50646
28.0.50; narrow-to-defun sometimes narrows to wrong defun

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: arthur.miller <at> live.com

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 17:07:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 28.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 50646 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, arthur.miller <at> live.com
Subject: bug#50646: 28.0.50; narrow-to-defun sometimes narrows to wrong defun
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 15:17:28 +0300

> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:06:26 +1200
> From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
> Cc: arthur.miller <at> live.com, 50646 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On 2021-09-20 00:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > What "other circumstances"?  This phrase only makes sense when
> > "some circumstances" were described before it.
> 
> Circumstances other than `insert-file-contents-literally' was
> the intended meaning, but evidentially that phrasing can also be
> confusing.

Then I suggest to mention insert-file-contents and other functions (if
any) that do this explicitly.  Something like

  This is contrary to other functions, like `insert-file-contents',
  which may modify a buffer in several ways after ...
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