From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55593 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: A P documentation could be enhanced Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:01:34 +0100 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87k747d24h.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: <87k749gd3v.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> <878ykoy89l.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073239298 24680 80.91.224.253 (4 Jan 2004 18:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:01:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4133@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jan 04 19:01:34 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AdCZC-0008Ju-00 for ; Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:01:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AdCZ7-0001yN-00; Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:01:29 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AdCZ3-0001yI-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:01:25 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03343A0027 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:01:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AdCZ1-0002mW-00 for ; Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:01:23 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.de Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1073239283 10297 213.203.244.156 (4 Jan 2004 18:01:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:01:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1004 (Gnus v5.10.4) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cK0AZ3w/adCXDml2o9CyIBoPDSk= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55593 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55593 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Kai Grossjohann writes: > >> In that case, I think the docstring is confusingly worded. (At least >> it confused this lowly poster.) It talks at length about the N arg, >> and only mentions the FILENAME arg in passing. Even though it was not >> stated explicitly, I thought that N was the prefix arg. > > Uhm... looking at the code, I think that N always is nil when called > interactively. So it's not a docstring confusion; it's just a bug. > :-) Please compare the docstring of B m with the one of A P. Don't you agree that the A P docstring suggests that C-u 42 A P will print 42 articles? I still think that the docstring does not adequately describe the behavior. Kai