Re: return of replace-match

[Nicolas Richard]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>> It looks correct to me.  When the docstring tells nothing about the
>> returning value, it may be anything and you shouldn't rely on it.
>
> IIUC, the problem here is that the docstring says it will return `t'
> and return `nil' instead.

s/docstring/info manual/
See (info "(elisp) Replacing Match")

> I guess that's just a documentation bug.

Agreed. "return Qnil" has been in the code forever as far as I can see
(which is what C-x v g can see).

-- 
Nico.