bug#782: marked as done (discrepancy between manual and function help text for condition-case)

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and subject line Re: discrepancy between manual and function help text for 
condition-case
has caused the Emacs bug report #782,
regarding discrepancy between manual and function help text for condition-case
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> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:45:33 +0100
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> Dear Emacs maintainers,
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> Evaluating (describe-function 'condition-case) displays a buffer
> containing (amongst other things), this text:
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>   When a handler handles an error,
>   control returns to the condition-case and the handler BODY... is executed
>   with var bound to (SIGNALED-CONDITIONS . SIGNAL-DATA).
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> In contrast, evaluating (info "(elisp)Handling Errors") displays
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>   The argument VAR is a variable.  `condition-case' does not bind
>   this variable when executing the PROTECTED-FORM, only when it
>   handles an error.  At that time, it binds VAR locally to an "error
>   description", which is a list giving the particulars of the error.
>   The error description has the form `(ERROR-SYMBOL . DATA)'.
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> I believe the text in the Elisp manual is the correct one.  That is, I
> think the correct text is that the car of the value bound to the
> variable is the error symbol, not the list of error conditions.
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> Can someone please fix this?
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> -- 
> Joe
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> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:25:53 -0400
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> I've clarified the docstring.  Thanks.
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