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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2018-07-06 12:31:51 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2018-07-06 12:31:51 +0300
commit4abf94fa3bfc9d03423c80b7ceab82905a4e3baa (patch)
tree58248d762a8c701f85247b0641efc3c22043e636 /lisp/simple.el
parent6cfc7a7b1bc3989e6d2cc271222ff7ce4eb23b5e (diff)
downloademacs-4abf94fa3bfc9d03423c80b7ceab82905a4e3baa.tar.gz
Clarify and improve doc strings of 'eval-last-sexp' and friends
* lisp/simple.el (eval-expression, eval-expression-print-format): * lisp/progmodes/elisp-mode.el (eval-last-sexp): Doc fixes. (Bug#32064)
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diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index cbad75193a4..8b183469f8a 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -1471,9 +1471,9 @@ This affects printing by `eval-expression' (via
:version "26.1")
(defun eval-expression-print-format (value)
- "If VALUE in an integer, return a specially formatted string.
+ "If VALUE is an integer, return a specially formatted string.
This string will typically look like \" (#o1, #x1, ?\\C-a)\".
-If VALUE is not an integer, nil is returned.
+If VALUE is not an integer, return nil.
This function is used by commands like `eval-expression' that
display the result of expression evaluation."
(when (integerp value)
@@ -1534,11 +1534,11 @@ non-nil (interactively, with a prefix argument of zero), however,
there is no such truncation.
If the resulting value is an integer, and CHAR-PRINT-LIMIT is
-non-nil (interactively, unless given a positive prefix argument)
+non-nil (interactively, unless given a non-zero prefix argument)
it will be printed in several additional formats (octal,
hexadecimal, and character). The character format is only used
if the value is below CHAR-PRINT-LIMIT (interactively, if the
-prefix argument is -1 or the value is below
+prefix argument is -1 or the value doesn't exceed
`eval-expression-print-maximum-character').
Runs the hook `eval-expression-minibuffer-setup-hook' on entering the