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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2014-04-24 18:11:04 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2014-04-24 18:11:04 +0300 |
| commit | 402a211fd318d0aef8de6cb606e678d2ec64706d (patch) | |
| tree | 00df3558f0dec0d121827c52bf0ffa994d03148e /doc/lispref/strings.texi | |
| parent | bc0650fdb6476da2d0fcb563955d848479b14959 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-402a211fd318d0aef8de6cb606e678d2ec64706d.tar.gz | |
Minor doc fix for string predicates.
doc/lispref/strings.texi (Text Comparison): Mention
equal-including-properties for when text properties of the strings
matter for comparison.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/lispref/strings.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/strings.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi index 24218a9cf15..e6b00f06f79 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi @@ -423,8 +423,10 @@ the symbol names are used. Case is always significant, regardless of This function is equivalent to @code{equal} for comparing two strings (@pxref{Equality Predicates}). In particular, the text properties of -the two strings are ignored. But if either argument is not a string -or symbol, an error is signaled. +the two strings are ignored; use @code{equal-including-properties} if +you need to distinguish between strings that differ only in their text +properties. However, unlike @code{equal}, if either argument is not a +string or symbol, @code{string=} signals an error. @example (string= "abc" "abc") |