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authorRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1996-01-04 19:00:38 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1996-01-04 19:00:38 +0000
commit26ef0f239b6352843be4cea8025e69b538dcd70b (patch)
treeecb4eea25c5fcd12071d80b0a13eb72be4354e9e /lisp/subr.el
parent59ee2cdb7cc24c307462c1f19d5e413f39cdd34f (diff)
downloademacs-26ef0f239b6352843be4cea8025e69b538dcd70b.tar.gz
(error): Doc fix.
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diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el
index f73a29ad11b..f96351e6e4d 100644
--- a/lisp/subr.el
+++ b/lisp/subr.el
@@ -704,7 +704,10 @@ This function accepts any number of arguments, but ignores them."
nil)
(defun error (&rest args)
- "Signal an error, making error message by passing all args to `format'."
+ "Signal an error, making error message by passing all args to `format'.
+In Emacs, the convention is that error messages start with a capital
+letter but *do not* end with a period. Please follow this convention
+for the sake of consistency."
(while t
(signal 'error (list (apply 'format args)))))