GNU bug report logs - #64960
Documentation for copy-sequence

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>

Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:43:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Fixed in version 29.2

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 64960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>
Cc: 64960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 21:36:32 +0300

> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:42:28 +0000
> From:  uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 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.
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