From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org>
Cc: 56261@debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#56261: [PATCH] maintaining.texi: typo
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:34:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7ydq85h.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a69ykrsj.fsf@mail.jao.io> (Jose A. Ortega Ruiz's message of "Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:14:04 +0100")
Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> writes:
> i misread that "using" as if it had a "by" in front. in the rendered
> texinfo (at least for me), that paragraph reads as:
>
> Go forward to a place from where you previously went back using
> ‘M-,’. This is useful if you find that you went back too far.
>
> and there's no reference anywhere to xref-go-forward, so it's hard to
> infer that that sentence is referring to that command.
Yes, that seems to be phrased in a way that could easily be
misunderstood. I've now rephrased it in Emacs 29.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-28 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-27 15:15 bug#56261: [PATCH] maintaining.texi: typo Jose A Ortega Ruiz
2022-06-27 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-27 16:14 ` Jose A Ortega Ruiz
2022-06-28 12:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-06-28 19:58 ` Jose A Ortega Ruiz
2022-06-28 20:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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