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[Emacs-diffs] master f230b2f: * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (Data types): |
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Thu, 25 Jun 2015 02:52:19 +0000 |
branch: master
commit f230b2ff3136120a9be544a5d3a974f7087ce55b
Author: Xue Fuqiao <address@hidden>
Commit: Xue Fuqiao <address@hidden>
* doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (Data types):
Improve documentation of 'substring'.
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doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi | 10 ++++++----
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
index 83d6022..183e68f 100644
--- a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
+++ b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
@@ -1947,10 +1947,12 @@ The value produced by evaluating this expression is
@code{"abcdef"}.
A function such as @code{substring} uses both a string and numbers as
arguments. The function returns a part of the string, a substring of
the first argument. This function takes three arguments. Its first
-argument is the string of characters, the second and third arguments are
-numbers that indicate the beginning and end of the substring. The
-numbers are a count of the number of characters (including spaces and
-punctuation) from the beginning of the string.
+argument is the string of characters, the second and third arguments
+are numbers that indicate the beginning (inclusive) and end
+(exclusive) of the substring. The numbers are a count of the number
+of characters (including spaces and punctuation) from the beginning of
+the string. Note that the characters in a string are numbered from
+zero, not one.
@need 800
For example, if you evaluate the following:
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