* bug#54543: Unclear explanation in the "Select Tags Table" part of the manual
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@ 2022-03-24 13:12 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-24 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2022-03-24 13:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 54543
Steps to reproduce the problem:
emacs -Q
Eval (info "(emacs) Select Tags Table")
The manual says at the beginning:
"Emacs has at any time at most one “selected” tags table. All the
commands for working with tags tables use the selected one."
But then, later on, it says:
"The tags commands use all the tags tables
in the current list. If you start a new list, the new tags table is
used _instead_ of others. If you add the new table to the current list,
it is used _as well as_ the others."
Doesn't this sound like a contradiction? I think the first sentence
should say there's at most one selected "tags table _list_", right?
Thanks.
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2022-03-24 13:12 ` bug#54543: Unclear explanation in the "Select Tags Table" part of the manual Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
@ 2022-03-24 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-24 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-03-24 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniel Martín; +Cc: 54543
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:12:48 +0100
> From: Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
>
> Steps to reproduce the problem:
>
> emacs -Q
> Eval (info "(emacs) Select Tags Table")
>
> The manual says at the beginning:
>
> "Emacs has at any time at most one “selected” tags table. All the
> commands for working with tags tables use the selected one."
>
> But then, later on, it says:
>
> "The tags commands use all the tags tables
> in the current list. If you start a new list, the new tags table is
> used _instead_ of others. If you add the new table to the current list,
> it is used _as well as_ the others."
>
> Doesn't this sound like a contradiction? I think the first sentence
> should say there's at most one selected "tags table _list_", right?
No. There's both the "selected" tags table and the "current set of
tags table" (what you call "tags table list").
The text is indeed a bit confusing, because it leads to this
interpretation, but the way to fix it is different from what you
thought. Hmm...
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* bug#54543: Unclear explanation in the "Select Tags Table" part of the manual
2022-03-24 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2022-03-24 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-24 16:34 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-03-24 15:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mardani29; +Cc: 54543
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:37:51 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 54543@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> The text is indeed a bit confusing, because it leads to this
> interpretation, but the way to fix it is different from what you
> thought. Hmm...
I've now tried to fix this on the emacs-28 branch, please take a look.
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* bug#54543: Unclear explanation in the "Select Tags Table" part of the manual
2022-03-24 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2022-03-24 16:34 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-24 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2022-03-24 16:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 54543
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:37:51 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> Cc: 54543@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> The text is indeed a bit confusing, because it leads to this
>> interpretation, but the way to fix it is different from what you
>> thought. Hmm...
>
> I've now tried to fix this on the emacs-28 branch, please take a look.
Thanks, the text is much more understandable now.
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* bug#54543: Unclear explanation in the "Select Tags Table" part of the manual
2022-03-24 16:34 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
@ 2022-03-24 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-03-24 17:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniel Martín; +Cc: 54543-done
> From: Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es>
> Cc: 54543@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:34:44 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:37:51 +0200
> >> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> >> Cc: 54543@debbugs.gnu.org
> >>
> >> The text is indeed a bit confusing, because it leads to this
> >> interpretation, but the way to fix it is different from what you
> >> thought. Hmm...
> >
> > I've now tried to fix this on the emacs-28 branch, please take a look.
>
> Thanks, the text is much more understandable now.
Ok, so I'm closing this bug.
Thanks.
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