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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/strings.texi | 6 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog index e9ea1f7459e..04b2e91ee4b 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2014-04-25 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> + + * strings.texi (Text Comparison): Mention + equal-including-properties for when text properties of the strings + matter for comparison. + 2014-04-22 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> * text.texi (Registers): Document register-read-with-preview. 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") |