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Bugs in Emacs documentation

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From: Paul_Abrahams
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1991 23:56
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(1) The description of Meta-^ states that a newline is replaced by no
space if the command is issued at the beginning of a line.  In fact,
you always get a space if no parentheses are in the neighborhood. 
Since the behavior is clearly more desirable than what's described in
the manual, I consider this a documentation bug, not a program bug.
 
(2) The description in the manual of picture-clear-column states that
the command does the same thing as picture-backward-clear-column,
except in the forward direction.  In fact, it doesn't move the point
while the backward command does move the point.  The description of the
function (as contrasted with the one in the manual) is correct.
 
Paul Abrahams
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