address@hidden: doc string discrepancy in ibuffer-mark-old-buffers]

[Richard Stallman]

Would someone please DTRT?

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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:46:58 -0700
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Subject: doc string discrepancy in ibuffer-mark-old-buffers


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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

In ibuffer mode, I read the doc string for the . key, and it said

    ibuffer-mark-old-buffers is an interactive compiled Lisp function in 
`ibuf-ext.el'.
    (ibuffer-mark-old-buffers)

    Mark buffers which have not been viewed in `ibuffer-old-time' days.

    [back]

I then followed the link for the `ibuffer-old-time' variable, and
noted that it said

    The number of hours before a buffer is considered "old".

So I checked the source, and it looks like "hours" is indeed correct.

Here's the obvious patch to fix it:

    --- ibuf-ext.el     20 Jan 2007 19:53:11 -0800      1.53
    +++ ibuf-ext.el     26 Jun 2007 11:43:25 -0700      
    @@ -1482,7 +1482,7 @@

     ;;;###autoload
     (defun ibuffer-mark-old-buffers ()
    -  "Mark buffers which have not been viewed in `ibuffer-old-time' days."
    +  "Mark buffers which have not been viewed in `ibuffer-old-time' hours."
       (interactive)
       (ibuffer-mark-on-buffer
        #'(lambda (buf)

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In GNU Emacs 22.1.50.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2007-06-13 on debian
configured using `configure  '--enable-maintainer-mode''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-fill-function: do-auto-fill
  erc-ring-mode: t
  erc-pcomplete-mode: t
  erc-netsplit-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  erc-button-mode: t
  erc-fill-mode: t
  erc-stamp-mode: t
  erc-autojoin-mode: t
  erc-track-mode: t
  erc-track-minor-mode: t
  erc-match-mode: t
  erc-log-mode: t
  erc-services-mode: t
  erc-irccontrols-mode: t
  erc-noncommands-mode: t
  erc-readonly-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
o u SPC r e f e r r i n g SPC t o SPC s o u r c e f 
o r g e . n e t SPC ? ESC b ESC d DEL RET t o _ TAB 
d o SPC y o u SPC i n SPC f a c t SPC _ h a v e _ SPC 
a SPC p o s t - ESC DEL p r e - c ESC / SPC h o o k 
? C-a ESC f ESC f ESC DEL c a n ESC f ESC d ESC d ESC 
d C-d SPC p a s t e ESC d SPC t h e RET C-c C-@ C-c 
C-@ m a y b e ESC DEL y o u SPC w i l l SPC n e e d 
SPC t o SPC f i g u r e SPC o u t SPC w h a t ' s SPC 
i n SPC i t , SPC t o SPC u n d e r s t a n d SPC t 
h i s SPC p r o b l e m . RET i t ' DEL SPC m n i g 
h t C-u C-b C-b C-d C-e C-c C-u C-c C-@ C-x C-b . s 
s C-h l * * RET C-h c C-x C-b C-h c . C-x 1 . D y s 
v . C-h K . q C-h k . C-x o TAB TAB RET TAB TAB TAB 
RET ESC < TAB RET C-n C-e ESC b ESC d h o u r s C-x 
C-s C-x 1 C-x v = C-x 0 ESC x r e p o r t - e m TAB 
b TAB RET

Recent messages:
Type C-x 1 to remove help window.  
mouse-2, RET: find function's definition
mouse-2, RET: describe this variable
mouse-2, RET: find variable's definition
mouse-2, RET: customize variable
mouse-2, RET: go back to previous help buffer
Mark set
mouse-2, RET: find function's definition
Saving file /usr/local/src/emacs-cvs/lisp/ibuf-ext.el...
Wrote /usr/local/src/emacs-cvs/lisp/ibuf-ext.el

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