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authorLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2019-08-17 14:52:15 -0700
committerLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2019-08-17 16:35:59 -0700
commit669599b0f4b59029fd977609be02f754a3b075eb (patch)
treee82a0bed9f7ad258cb53a698f3e7d9f78878f635 /lisp/newcomment.el
parentc90a420779448fecf1941f063da3e8276dc3d0d7 (diff)
downloademacs-669599b0f4b59029fd977609be02f754a3b075eb.tar.gz
Doc clarification in two comment-* functions
* lisp/newcomment.el (comment-padright, comment-padleft): Note that `comment-normalize-vars' must be called first (bug#11944).
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/newcomment.el')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/newcomment.el b/lisp/newcomment.el
index ac706b949ba..027c20430cc 100644
--- a/lisp/newcomment.el
+++ b/lisp/newcomment.el
@@ -825,7 +825,9 @@ If STR already contains padding, the corresponding amount is
ignored from `comment-padding'.
N defaults to 0.
If N is `re', a regexp is returned instead, that would match
-the string for any N."
+the string for any N.
+
+Ensure that `comment-normalize-vars' has been called before you use this."
(setq n (or n 0))
(when (and (stringp str) (string-match "\\S-" str))
;; Separate the actual string from any leading/trailing padding
@@ -860,8 +862,10 @@ It also adds N copies of the first non-whitespace chars of STR.
If STR already contains padding, the corresponding amount is
ignored from `comment-padding'.
N defaults to 0.
-If N is `re', a regexp is returned instead, that would match
- the string for any N."
+If N is `re', a regexp is returned instead, that would match the
+string for any N.
+
+Ensure that `comment-normalize-vars' has been called before you use this."
(setq n (or n 0))
(when (and (stringp str) (not (string= "" str)))
;; Only separate the left pad because we assume there is no right pad.