a few minor issues with manuals ...

[martin rudalics]

(1) Elisp manual section 6.1 "Sequences" has in its first paragraph the
following sentence:

     This section describes functions that accept any kind of sequence.

In the same section you find the following description:

 -- Function: string-bytes string
     This function returns the number of bytes in STRING.  If STRING is
     a multibyte string, this is greater than `(length STRING)'.

I consider this contradictory and either the sentence above should be
changed appropriately or `string-bytes' moved to section 4 (where I'd
expect to find it in the first place).


(2) Elisp manual section 16.5 "Evaluation During Compilation" contains
the following sentence:

     They can be defined while compiling, but then not needed when
     executing.

Either the formulation is wrong or I fail to understand this.


(3) Elisp manual section 35.6.5 "Parameters to Control Parsing" has

 -- User Option: parse-sexp-ignore-comments
     If the value is non-`nil', then comments are treated as whitespace
     by the functions in this section and by `forward-sexp'.

which is slightly misleading.  I'd rewrite the last line as

     by `scan-lists', `scan-sexps', and `forward-sexp'.


(4) Elisp manual section 38.9.3 "Searching for Overlays" contains the
following example:

     (defun find-overlay-prop (prop)
       (save-excursion
         (while (and (not (eobp))
                     (not (get-char-property (point) prop)))
           (goto-char (min (next-overlay-change (point))
                           (next-single-property-change (point) prop))))
         (point)))

This example is misleading since to search for the next change of a text
or overlay property `next-single-char-property-change' is far superior.
`find-overlay-prop' may render execution time proportional to two times
the size of the buffer.


(5) Emacs manual section 58.3.4.2 "Safety of File Variables" contains
the sentence:

     The default is `maybe', which is neither `t' nor `nil', so normally
     Emacs does ask for confirmation about processes `eval' variables.

Presumably "processes" should be "processing" here.