Subject: bug#64776: closed (Re: bug#64776: 29.0.91; doc string of `ignore')

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 05:38:02 +0000

Your bug report

#64776: 29.0.91; doc string of `ignore'

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#64776: 29.0.91; doc string of `ignore'
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 08:37:33 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:42:16 +0000
> 
> 1. The two "and"s here are confusing.  Maybe say something like this:
> 
>      It is bound to key sequences M-<noname>, C-<noname> and
>      C-M-<drag-mouse-1>, and to many ordinary text characters.

This text is auto-generated, and in most cases the last "and" would
not be there.  I did nothing about this, as the issue is very minor
anyway.

> 2. TheA &rest argument, such as ARGUMENTS here, is singular; its value
>    is a list of actual arguments.
> 
>    This is incorrect; there is only one &rest argument, and its name
>    here is ARGUMENTS.
> 
>    This:
> 
>      This function accepts any number of ARGUMENTS, but ignores them.
> 
>   should be this:
> 
>      This function accepts any number of arguments, but ignores them.

Thanks, I fixed it in a different way (the first sentence of a good
doc string should reference the arguments).

Closing.

Subject: 29.0.91; doc string of `ignore'
From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:42:16 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

1. The two "and"s here are confusing.  Maybe say something like this:

     It is bound to key sequences M-<noname>, C-<noname> and
     C-M-<drag-mouse-1>, and to many ordinary text characters.

2. TheA &rest argument, such as ARGUMENTS here, is singular; its value
   is a list of actual arguments.

   This is incorrect; there is only one &rest argument, and its name
   here is ARGUMENTS.

   This:

     This function accepts any number of ARGUMENTS, but ignores them.

  should be this:

     This function accepts any number of arguments, but ignores them.

In GNU Emacs 29.0.91 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2023-05-14 built
 on AVALON
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19045
System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (v10.0.2009.19045.3086)

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

Configured features:
ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP
NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XPM ZLIB

(NATIVE_COMP present but libgccjit not available)