From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 31623@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31623: 27.0; Elisp manual, index entry "; in comment"
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 21:58:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sdtdhvx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4fc08e13-4c43-4f4b-a9ad-0ce221b9d4ea@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 29 May 2018 17:38:49 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > If that's the intention then I think it might be clearer
>> > if the index entry were "; outside a comment" or maybe
>> > "; not in a comment".
> But certainly the `;' that starts a comment is part of the
> comment itself. No one would doubt that, I think.
I'm a bit puzzled then. How would "; outside a comment" make sense for
a page which talks about comments? That seems to be the opposite of
what it's about.
> The entry should indicate something about the subject
> indexed. "; in comment" does not do that, for me, at
> least.
What do you think about the "(...) in lists" entry?
> Or perhaps you have a suggestion.
I don't really see a problem with the current one, but I guess "; for
commenting" (in the same vein as "' for quoting") could be okay.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-30 1:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-28 14:35 bug#31623: 27.0; Elisp manual, index entry "; in comment" Drew Adams
2018-05-29 23:32 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-29 23:47 ` Drew Adams
2018-05-30 0:14 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-30 0:38 ` Drew Adams
2018-05-30 1:58 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-05-30 2:23 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-20 12:48 ` Noam Postavsky
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