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author | Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email protected]> | 2014-02-07 21:12:47 -0800 |
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committer | Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email protected]> | 2014-02-07 21:12:47 -0800 |
commit | 8acaaad7bd292795f4ac04a639af2d1284b875ba (patch) | |
tree | 6994d9fe5de4da5b889a357e7affbe278123809a /src/syntax.c | |
parent | 15cb9968c09e7c265878fcc023a9168c9716dced (diff) |
* syntax.c (Fskip_syntax_backward): Doc clarification.
Fixes: debbugs:15115
Diffstat (limited to 'src/syntax.c')
-rw-r--r-- | src/syntax.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/syntax.c b/src/syntax.c index 12575bfa3f..f2451332b1 100644 --- a/src/syntax.c +++ b/src/syntax.c @@ -1532,7 +1532,8 @@ DEFUN ("skip-syntax-backward", Fskip_syntax_backward, Sskip_syntax_backward, 1, SYNTAX is a string of syntax code characters. Stop on reaching a char whose syntax is not in SYNTAX, or at position LIM. If SYNTAX starts with ^, skip characters whose syntax is NOT in SYNTAX. -This function returns the distance traveled, either zero or negative. */) +This function returns either zero or a negative number, and the absolute value +of this is the distance traveled. */) (Lisp_Object syntax, Lisp_Object lim) { return skip_syntaxes (0, syntax, lim); |