Subject: bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence

From: uzibalqa <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:20:45 +0000

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On Monday, July 31st, 2023 at 6:36 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:42:28 +0000
> > From: uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> > the Swiss army knife of text editors" [email-masked]
> > 
> > Have been reading the documentation for "copy-sequence". The description,
> > specifically
> > 
> > "The elements of a list, vector or record are not copied; they are
> > shared with the original."
> > 
> > is not very clear about what it does and what one gets.
> 
> 
> As the doc string says: the elements are not copied. You get a new
> sequence whose elements are shared with the original one.
> 

So it returns a copy but elements are not copied.  So what happens exactly ?
You get a reference to the original ?  When I modify the copy, the original 
remains intact.  It would help if the description in broadened, it is currently
too cryptic.