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| author | Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> | 2021-12-01 06:30:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> | 2021-12-01 06:30:22 +0100 |
| commit | 93d9bc09f4167100664ac5a3a1cd686e6d7be9a8 (patch) | |
| tree | af395ae58f0bf8c764be5a995657728927305571 /doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi | |
| parent | 6adf37b4a5a954ac981c2f89ea2c343658f532c2 (diff) | |
| parent | e632b83a281fedf652d254ceaa210438301e2513 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-93d9bc09f4167100664ac5a3a1cd686e6d7be9a8.tar.gz | |
Merge from origin/emacs-28
e632b83a28 Update authors.el for Emacs 28
e9fdb11903 ; * ChangeLog.3: Some additional fixes.
8fa4749df1 ; * ChangeLog.3: Filename fixes.
ea5a90b4f4 * lisp/repeat.el: Fix long-standing problem when a random ...
ef4954b69c * lisp/repeat.el (repeat-keep-prefix): Change default to nil.
6d5886e780 * test/lisp/repeat-tests.el (repeat-tests-call-b): Test fo...
9e16c6a96d ; * src/comp.c (syms_of_comp) <comp-no-native-file-h>: Doc...
9aa8fd6e62 * src/callint.c (Fcall_interactively): Fix inhibit_mouse_e...
70c229b1fc Fix regression in gdb-frame-handler
cd9dd26d24 Format and index concept 'predicate' in ELisp Intro
ab291656d0 ; * ChangeLog.3: Fix typos.
354f6c5609 ; * ChangeLog.3: Formatting fixes.
6192525a96 ; make change-history-commit
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diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi index 6ddc3bfb5c2..9f1f10e8d69 100644 --- a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi +++ b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi @@ -2146,9 +2146,10 @@ number---the number of characters the location is from the beginning of the buffer.) In Emacs Lisp, @code{+} can be used to add the numeric value of marker positions as numbers. +@cindex @samp{predicate} defined The @samp{p} of @code{number-or-marker-p} is the embodiment of a practice started in the early days of Lisp programming. The @samp{p} -stands for ``predicate''. In the jargon used by the early Lisp +stands for @dfn{predicate}. In the jargon used by the early Lisp researchers, a predicate refers to a function to determine whether some property is true or false. So the @samp{p} tells us that @code{number-or-marker-p} is the name of a function that determines |