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bug#38844: 28.0.50; Incorrect result by help-fns--mention-first-release
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#38844: 28.0.50; Incorrect result by help-fns--mention-first-release |
Date: |
Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:22:42 +0200 |
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On January 1, 2020 11:36:28 AM GMT+02:00, Xu Chunyang <xuchunyang56@gmail.com>
wrote:
> C-h f exec-path mentions "Probably introduced at or before Emacs
> version 22.1.", however, according to NEWS.27 the function exec-path
> is introduced in Emacs 27.1. I checked that Emacs 24.5 doesn't provide
> the function exec-path.
That's because 'exec-path' the variable was introduced a long time ago. The
heuristics we use to search the NEWS files for symbols cannot distinguish
between diffetent kinds that have the same names.