From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 15810@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15810: 24.3.50; inappropriate text in (emacs) `Echo Area'
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:39:52 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e7c805d-a5fe-499b-9a1c-e0ee1e81dec9@default> (raw)
This text has no business being there:
(We have not explained buffers yet; see *note Buffers::,
for more information about them.)
(We have not
explained variables either; see *note Variables::, for more information
about them.)
Include the cross references, but drop the unhelpful commentary.
This text seems based on an assumption that reading is linear, from page
1 to the current page. This was not true back in the 1980s, when Info
was created, and it certainly is not true today. Reserve such text (if
at all) for the printed manual.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2013-10-19 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 114715 rgm@gnu.org-20131019023520-s8mwtib7xcx9e05w
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --enable-checking 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'
next reply other threads:[~2013-11-05 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-05 15:39 Drew Adams [this message]
2013-11-05 16:55 ` bug#15810: 24.3.50; inappropriate text in (emacs) `Echo Area' Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-05 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] <<6e7c805d-a5fe-499b-9a1c-e0ee1e81dec9@default>
[not found] ` <<831u2u94af.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-11-05 17:14 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-05 17:20 ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-05 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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