bug#37639: (elisp manual) About description of markers in strunct buffer_text.

["Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>]

severity 37639 minor
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Takesi Ayanokoji <ayanokoji.takesi@gmail.com> writes:

> At @item markers
>   , in @subsection Buffer Internals
>   , in @section Object Internals
>   , in internals.texi
>   , in lispref manual, the manual says,
>
> This is actually a single marker, and successive elements in its marker
> @code{chain} are the other markers referring to this buffer text.
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/doc/lispref/internals.texi#n2023
>
> But I think @code{chain} should be markup-ed with @dfn, @emph, or quoted with ` and '.

Indeed, @code doesn't seem right here.  I would go with either
``quotes'' or no markup at all, like the 'next' entry further down that
page:

  ‘next’
       A pointer to the next buffer, in the chain of all buffers,
       including killed buffers.  This chain is used only for allocation
       and garbage collection, in order to collect killed buffers
       properly.

> (Or "chain" is some kind of symbol defined in source files? I can't find it.)

No, it's just a metaphor.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil