From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: stephen.berman@gmx.net, 44929@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44929: 28.0.50; Info-next-reference skips next reference
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 22:22:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83czzxmdtm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2cb435b4-7de8-4783-9830-44195c111aca@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:10:57 -0800 (PST))
> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:10:57 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 44929-done@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> How about improving `C-h k RET' here, to let
> users know that? Neither the command name
> nor the doc string really suggests that. IOW,
> can we please elaborate about "near point"?
>
> What's more, though some of the doc string says
> "near point", other parts say "on".
>
> "If point is on a reference..."
> "If point is in a menu item..."
>
> And this mistakenly says that "point" is "on",
> or "in" something, whereas point is a position,
> not something that is at, on, or in something
> else. It's the other way around: something is
> _at_ a position (such as point).
Pedant.
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2020-11-28 19:21 bug#44929: 28.0.50; Info-next-reference skips next reference Stephen Berman
2020-11-28 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-28 19:54 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-28 20:10 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-28 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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