Re: rot13-other-window too horny

[Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

Eli> On 13 Jun 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:

Emacs> rot13-other-window is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `rot13'.
Emacs> (rot13-other-window)
Emacs> 
Emacs> Display current buffer in rot 13 in another window.
Emacs> To terminate the rot13 display, delete that window.

>> why the line
Emacs> (rot13-other-window)
>> in this help message

Eli> That line shows how to call the function.  It is present in all the
Eli> other doc strings, except that some functions take arguments and some
Eli> don't.

Oh, I guess I was used to seeing  "Usage: ", silly me.

>> and why, pray tell, when I do
>> $ emacs file1 file2
>> ESC x rot13-other-window RET C-x o C-x b RET
>> one can see that rot13 has also contaminated the Buffer-list and even
>> the other innocent file of the command line.  Quite clearly beyond the
>> mere claim that it will just "Display current buffer in rot 13 in
>> another window."

Eli> That will teach you to follow the instructions ;-): 

Eli>    "To terminate the rot13 display, delete that window."

Eli> See? it says ``to terminate the display'', not ``to terminate the
Eli> display of that one rot13-messed buffer''.

Ok, but it also says "Display _current buffer_ in rot 13 in another
window." but it obviously goes beyond this claim as it even rot13'd my
mom's holiday greeting card that wasn't in the current buffer.  Good
thing I wasn't sending a message to Clinton at the time :-)

Eli> See also `toggle-rot13-mode'.  (I now added that to the doc string of 
Eli> rot13-other-window).
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