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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> The worst thing is that the docstrings are highly misleading.  All of
> them say "Valid values are nil, t, `head', `last', an integer or a
> predicate."

I'd welcome a patch that made the docstrings more helpful.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen