From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 16:42:14 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Improve documentation of apply-partially
X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~200
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef37a86cacab221aa26fc8c2f746626e6e81ebc6;p=emacs.git

Improve documentation of apply-partially

* doc/lispref/functions.texi (Calling Functions): Improve
documentation of 'apply-partially' to be slightly more clear with
regards to function arity.  (Bug#17623)
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/functions.texi b/doc/lispref/functions.texi
index c856557c3cb..f95c6d3656b 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/functions.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/functions.texi
@@ -826,12 +826,13 @@ This function returns a new function which, when called, will call
 @var{func} with the list of arguments composed from @var{args} and
 additional arguments specified at the time of the call.  If @var{func}
 accepts @var{n} arguments, then a call to @code{apply-partially} with
-@w{@code{@var{m} < @var{n}}} arguments will produce a new function of
+@w{@code{@var{m} <= @var{n}}} arguments will produce a new function of
 @w{@code{@var{n} - @var{m}}} arguments.
 
 Here's how we could define the built-in function @code{1+}, if it
 didn't exist, using @code{apply-partially} and @code{+}, another
-built-in function:
+built-in function:@footnote{Note that unlike the built-in function
+this version accepts any number of arguments.}
 
 @example
 @group