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authorDevon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2017@jovi.net>2017-09-26 10:51:04 -0400
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-09-29 15:50:51 +0300
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bug#28609: simple.el
Correct grammar; also, call a pair a pair. (cherry picked from commit 25ef543a97a80718cc4eb33734d393420a43f41e)
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
-rw-r--r--lisp/simple.el5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index 469557713d7..44728fd566a 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@ Called with one argument METHOD.
If METHOD is `delete-only', then delete the region; the return value
is undefined. If METHOD is nil, then return the content as a string.
If METHOD is `bounds', then return the boundaries of the region
-as a list of pairs of (START . END) positions.
+as a pair of the form (START . END) positions.
If METHOD is anything else, delete the region and return its content
as a string, after filtering it with `filter-buffer-substring', which
is called with METHOD as its 3rd argument.")
@@ -5473,7 +5473,8 @@ also checks the value of `use-empty-active-region'."
(progn (cl-assert (mark)) t)))
(defun region-bounds ()
- "Return the boundaries of the region as a list of pairs of (START . END) positions."
+ "Return the boundaries of the region as a pair of positions.
+Value is of the form (START . END)."
(funcall region-extract-function 'bounds))
(defun region-noncontiguous-p ()