GNU bug report logs - #70163
29.3; hexl-mode incorrect docstring

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>

Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 15:02:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.3

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

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: thievol <at> posteo.net, 70163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#70163: 29.3; hexl-mode incorrect docstring
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:20:20 +0200
On Apr 04 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
>> Cc: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>,  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
>>   70163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:45:14 +0200
>> 
>> On Apr 04 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> > Does the patch below gives any better results?  It doesn't look better
>> > to me: the "Uses keymap..." blurb gets in the way and makes the
>> > documentation text wrong.
>> 
>> C-h f hexl-mode triggers the autoload and uses the substituted doc
>> string (thus no blurb).  M-x apropos hexl-mode does not trigger the
>> autoload and uses the substituted first line of the doc string
>> (including the blurb if present).  C-h a hexl-mode uses the first line
>> of the raw doc string.
>
> Thanks, but I thought the complaint was about what the 'documentation'
> function returns.

That's exactly what I have described.

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