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authorLars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2011-09-19 10:25:35 +0200
committerLars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2011-09-19 10:25:35 +0200
commita4824228fa89c5b1676666ff59481042cf084e5d (patch)
treea61e9a72014df0fb3568bd4d3b73c10b7ffdeec0
parent713df35b6d579d4fd3674376e6092b0287dcc2a1 (diff)
downloademacs-a4824228fa89c5b1676666ff59481042cf084e5d.tar.gz
* lread.c (Fread_from_string): Document what FINAL-STRING-INDEX is.
Fixes: debbugs:9493
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diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 8c223cc374e..12a45918e87 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-09-19 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
+
+ * lread.c (Fread_from_string): Document what FINAL-STRING-INDEX is
+ (bug#9493).
+
2011-09-18 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
* xfns.c (Fx_create_frame): Handle the bitmapIcon resource as
diff --git a/src/lread.c b/src/lread.c
index 11c4cf8c8f4..2b1b49ab2fe 100644
--- a/src/lread.c
+++ b/src/lread.c
@@ -1965,6 +1965,8 @@ STREAM or the value of `standard-input' may be:
DEFUN ("read-from-string", Fread_from_string, Sread_from_string, 1, 3, 0,
doc: /* Read one Lisp expression which is represented as text by STRING.
Returns a cons: (OBJECT-READ . FINAL-STRING-INDEX).
+FINAL-STRING-INDEX is an integer giving the position of the next
+ remaining chararacter in STRING.
START and END optionally delimit a substring of STRING from which to read;
they default to 0 and (length STRING) respectively. */)
(Lisp_Object string, Lisp_Object start, Lisp_Object end)