I find a mistake in "introduction to emacs lisp" in emacs 23

[waterloo]

In "kill-new function" of 8.3.1.

The critical lines are these:

......

  (setq kill-ring (cons string kill-ring)) is needless .

thanks

[bolega]

Can anyone else confirm this ? and explain if it is a minor issue or a
major one ?

[tyler]

bolega <gnui...@gmail.com> writes:

The actual node is:

(info "(eintr)kill-new function")

And it does look like the line above is incorrect. It does not appear in
the code for the kill-new function in simple.el, and from the
explanation in the info node, it sounds as if it serves the same purpose
as the preceding line:

(push string kill-ring)

I guess the (push ...) function should have replaced the (setq ...)
function, but the (setq ...) never got deleted.

Cheers,

Tyler
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