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bug#10346: 24.0.92; doc string of `save-buffer'
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#10346: 24.0.92; doc string of `save-buffer' |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:13:15 -0700 (PDT) |
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
> >> The doc string talks about the prefix arg, but no connection is made to
> >> ARGS for use in Lisp.
> >
> > Yes. But the values for ARG are so... non-Lispey, I have a feeling
> > that it's been left off by choice. The values are basically 0, 4, 16
> > and 64, which are ... kinda opaque when calling a function like that.
> >
> > I don't know. Should these values be documented or not?
>
> I think they're left out on purpose. Closing.
Do you realize that you answered your own question?
This is a command. Interactively, ARG is the numeric prefix
arg. This should be stated in the doc string: What ARG is for
and how it is used.