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| author | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2018-04-15 19:45:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2018-04-15 19:45:05 +0200 |
| commit | 47d52c22559da40003dcd02ad32097562a8573d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e2cdefe9c1c131dec26d885d897e3c7ba02e097 | |
| parent | a38f79a8fd9c48b8911cad34159a64e97811a0ee (diff) | |
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mail-extr.el: Mention `mail-header-parse-address' in the doc string
* lisp/mail/mail-extr.el (mail-extract-address-components):
Mention `mail-header-parse-address' in the doc string.
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/mail/mail-extr.el | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/mail/mail-extr.el b/lisp/mail/mail-extr.el index 3e8a41fb24c..0175c687b26 100644 --- a/lisp/mail/mail-extr.el +++ b/lisp/mail/mail-extr.el @@ -712,7 +712,13 @@ one recipients, all but the first is ignored. ADDRESS may be a string or a buffer. If it is a buffer, the visible \(narrowed) portion of the buffer will be interpreted as the address. \(This feature exists so that the clever caller might be able to avoid -consing a string.)" +consing a string.) + +This function is primarily meant for when you're displaying the +result to the user: Many prettifications are applied to the +result returned. If you want to decode an address for further +non-display use, you should probably use +`mail-header-parse-address' instead." (let ((canonicalization-buffer (get-buffer-create " *canonical address*")) (extraction-buffer (get-buffer-create " *extract address components*")) value-list) |