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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Ron Mitchell" <ron@ronmitchell.co.uk>
Cc: 41859-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41859: 27.0.91; docstring for 'man' command
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:49:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wo3t2biy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f4fdead-b5df-4163-9fd4-34928373af1f@www.fastmail.com> (ron@ronmitchell.co.uk)

> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:25:34 +0100
> From: "Ron Mitchell" <ron@ronmitchell.co.uk>
> 
> Hi Eli,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> I agree that '1 cat' can indeed be entered as is.
> 
> However even as a user of emacs for over twenty years it did not occur to me to use C-q to enter the required space in the other examples.  Could I suggest that the docstring be amended to provide this hint?

Fair enough, I added a note to the doc string to that effect.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-27  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-14 18:46 bug#41859: 27.0.91; docstring for 'man' command Ron Mitchell
2020-06-20  8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <6f4fdead-b5df-4163-9fd4-34928373af1f@www.fastmail.com>
2020-06-27  7:49     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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