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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 32959-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32959: 26; Emacs manual index entry `C-SPC C-SPC disabling Transient Mark'
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:35:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k1mnwoiv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b01a158-aff2-42b2-88e3-c29d704cc22a@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 7 Oct 2018 00:04:56 +0000 (UTC))

> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 00:04:56 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 
> This index entry seems to be misnamed.  Compare, for example, the index
> entry for `C-u C-x C-x' (which goes to the same node).  The latter entry
> is named just `C-u C-x C-x', not `C-u C-x C-x disabling Transient Mark'.

There is already an index entry "C-SPC C-SPC", so we need to
disambiguate the second one.

I changed the qualification to say "enabling Transient Mark
mode temporarily".

> Seems like the entry name should just be `C-SPC C-SPC'.

No, see above.

> Beyond the name of this entry, this doc seems confusing to me.
> 
> Should it talk about turning the mode on/off, or about
> enabling/disabling the mode, or about activating/deactivating the mode.
> The node uses all three, which only confuses.

I don't find it confusing at all, so I didn't change the text.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-12  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-07  0:04 bug#32959: 26; Emacs manual index entry `C-SPC C-SPC disabling Transient Mark' Drew Adams
2018-10-12  8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] <<9b01a158-aff2-42b2-88e3-c29d704cc22a@default>
     [not found] ` <<83k1mnwoiv.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-10-12 14:00   ` Drew Adams
2018-10-12 14:11     ` Eli Zaretskii

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