From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 16:21:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (Flength): Doc fix.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-20.1~565
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c57d6fdaea1a9412a485b21ab5fcc3b505edbc3;p=emacs.git

(Flength): Doc fix.
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diff --git a/src/fns.c b/src/fns.c
index 8a76dcd1cff..11c552a5f77 100644
--- a/src/fns.c
+++ b/src/fns.c
@@ -106,7 +106,10 @@ With argument t, set the random number seed from the current time and pid.")
 
 DEFUN ("length", Flength, Slength, 1, 1, 0,
   "Return the length of vector, list or string SEQUENCE.\n\
-A byte-code function object is also allowed.")
+A byte-code function object is also allowed.\n\
+If the string contains multibyte characters, this is not the necessarily\n\
+the number of characters in the string; it is the number of bytes.\n\
+To get the number of characters, use `chars-in-string'")
   (sequence)
      register Lisp_Object sequence;
 {