GNU bug report logs - #77650
30.1; strange docstring for dired-do-touch

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> potorti.it>

Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 17:30:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 30.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> potorti.it>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 30.1; strange docstring for dired-do-touch
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:28:18 +0200

This is the start of defun of dired-do-touch in dired-aux.el

(defun dired-do-touch (&optional arg)
  "Change the timestamp of the marked (or next ARG) files.
This calls touch.
Type Type \\<minibuffer-local-completion-map>\\[next-history-element] \
to pull the file attributes of the file at point
into the minibuffer."

The last three lines of the docstring make no sense to me because:

1. "Type" is repeated twice
2. when I call for description of "T" in a dired buffer, those lines show as:

Type Type M-n to pull the file attributes of the file at point
into the minibuffer.

But M-n calls clone-buffer
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