From: Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 56261@debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#56261: [PATCH] maintaining.texi: typo
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 20:58:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfnok1aa.fsf@mail.jao.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7ydq85h.fsf@gnus.org>
On Tue, Jun 28 2022, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 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.
thanks. if i'm reading the diff correctly:
+ If you previously went back too far with @kbd{M-,}, @kbd{C-M-,}
+(@code{xref-go-forward} can be used to go forward again.
could it be that there's a missing ) in the second line? other than
that, it's crystal clear now!
cheers,
jao
--
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it"
-Yogi Berra, baseball coach.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-28 19:58 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
2022-06-28 19:58 ` Jose A Ortega Ruiz [this message]
2022-06-28 20:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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