GNU bug report logs - #6493
24.0.50; doc strings of region-beginning, region-end

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

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:14:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #65 received at 6493 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Johan Bockgård <bojohan <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>,
	Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>, 6493 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#6493:
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 21:01:43 +0200

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 17:16, Johan Bockgård <bojohan <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Something that should be mentioned in the doc strings is the following:
>
>    The next two functions signal an error if the mark does not point
>    anywhere. If Transient Mark mode is enabled and
>    `mark-even-if-inactive' is `nil', they also signal an error if the
>    mark is inactive.

Can we simplify that to just say that they signal an error if the
region is not active? (The region-* commands are somewhat specific, so
it's reasonable to suppose that the programmer knows what he's doing
or can lookup the docs.)

    Juanma
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