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authorBjörn Linse <bjorn.linse@gmail.com>2017-04-30 09:16:11 +0200
committerBjörn Linse <bjorn.linse@gmail.com>2017-04-30 11:04:10 +0200
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api: deprecate obsolete nvim_buf_get_number function
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diff --git a/runtime/doc/msgpack_rpc.txt b/runtime/doc/msgpack_rpc.txt
index 261e68cfb1..c5c0392d96 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/msgpack_rpc.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/msgpack_rpc.txt
@@ -221,7 +221,10 @@ Special types (msgpack EXT) ~
An API method expecting one of these types may be passed an integer instead,
although they are not interchangeable. For example, a Buffer may be passed as
-an integer, but not a Window or Tabpage.
+an integer, but not as a Window or Tabpage. The data in the EXT object is the
+object id encodes as a msgpack integer. For buffers this is equal to the
+buffer number and for windows the window id. For tabpages this is not equal to
+tabpage numbers.
The most reliable way of determining the type codes for the special Nvim types
is to inspect the `types` key of metadata dictionary returned by the