GNU bug report logs - #60125
28.2; Doc string of `format': remove uses of "print"

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:48:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 28.2

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

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 28.2; Doc string of `format': remove uses of "print"
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:46:52 +0000

Please consider fixing the wording, to not speak of "printing" anything.
There's no printing involved - the doc is misleading.  (The entry in the
Elisp manual doesn't have this problem.)

In GNU Emacs 28.2 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2022-09-13 built on AVALON
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19044
System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (v10.0.2009.19044.2251)

Configured using:
 'configure --with-modules --without-dbus --with-native-compilation
 --without-compress-install CFLAGS=-O2'

Configured features:
ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP
NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
XPM ZLIB

(NATIVE_COMP present but libgccjit not available)
Reply sent to Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 60125-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60125: 28.2; Doc string of `format': remove uses of "print"
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 20:46:54 +0200

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:46:52 +0000
> 
> Please consider fixing the wording, to not speak of "printing" anything.
> There's no printing involved - the doc is misleading.  (The entry in the
> Elisp manual doesn't have this problem.)

Thanks, I replaced "print" with "produce".
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