From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:29:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83eeh4rwrh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874ki4kuy8.fsf@gnus.org> <838s7gw0zf.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2ffeqh0.fsf@gnus.org> <83im6jv4we.fsf@gnu.org> <83blcavlzp.fsf@gnu.org> <87lfbda1ms.fsf@gnus.org> <83eeh5to93.fsf@gnu.org> <875z2h766y.fsf@gnus.org> <837dmxtmz1.fsf@gnu.org> <87tuq041s8.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17526"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: laszlomail@protonmail.com, 46702@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 25 16:30:18 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lFIan-0004SG-J1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:30:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57200 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFIam-0008N5-L0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:30:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47980) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFIaZ-0008MR-3q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:55693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFIaY-0005lY-Ro for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:30:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lFIaY-0004zt-Ng for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:30:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:30:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46702 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: fixed Original-Received: via spool by 46702-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46702.161426700019175 (code B ref 46702); Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46702) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Feb 2021 15:30:00 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39006 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lFIaV-0004zD-JR for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58262) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lFIaU-0004yz-Ht for 46702@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57512) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFIaP-0005ec-6d; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:29:53 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4232 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lFIaN-0000vc-UO; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:29:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87tuq041s8.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:15:03 +0100) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:200786 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: laszlomail@protonmail.com, 46702@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:15:03 +0100 > > > The "How to resize mini-windows..." part begins "out of the blue". > > It's actually incorrect English (incomplete sentence), AFAIK. It > > reads okay-ish when the first line is alone, or when the text follows > > some heading, like "Documentation:", but that is gone now. > > I don't think the "Documentation:" line helps much here, though. It's > just an awkward first line. I didn't say we should reinstate that line, did I? > But even if the buffer started with: > > resize-mini-windows is a variable defined in ‘C source code’. > > How to resize mini-windows (the minibuffer and the echo area). > A value of nil means don’t automatically resize mini-windows. > > It'd still be an awkward doc string, because it's just an awkward > semi-sentence. Which is why I said we may wish rewriting it (and others like it, of which we have quite a few, I think).