From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 19:00:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (error): Doc fix.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-19.34~1924
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aa308ce238add47d57734c5747329c60d2933b8f;p=emacs.git

(error): Doc fix.
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diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el
index f73a29ad11b..f96351e6e4d 100644
--- a/lisp/subr.el
+++ b/lisp/subr.el
@@ -704,7 +704,10 @@ This function accepts any number of arguments, but ignores them."
   nil)
 
 (defun error (&rest args)
-  "Signal an error, making error message by passing all args to `format'."
+  "Signal an error, making error message by passing all args to `format'.
+In Emacs, the convention is that error messages start with a capital
+letter but *do not* end with a period.  Please follow this convention
+for the sake of consistency."
   (while t
     (signal 'error (list (apply 'format args)))))