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From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
To: 35793@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35793: 27.0.50; Redundant "See" in the ELisp manual
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 18:00:19 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABczVwc6=vaViv5XZeGDi+PQ5h-ht+d0-vbUw+MN8zvmnj7EWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABczVweucwNDwr-XqFSCzBXfez0Nwf5o3wqjrvJOaX9E6ttpPQ@mail.gmail.com>


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From 4ab8fb7dc8a8e131523aee947b9163c76efe876e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 17:35:04 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Delete "See" before @xref or @pxref

* doc/lispref/positions.texi (Skipping Characters): Remove redundant
  "See" before cross references.  Change @xref to @pxref, which is
  more suitable when at the end of a sentence.  (Bug#35793)
---
 doc/lispref/positions.texi | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/lispref/positions.texi b/doc/lispref/positions.texi
index 527a3ab..7707793 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/positions.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/positions.texi
@@ -840,8 +840,8 @@ Skipping Characters
 terminate it, and @samp{\} quotes @samp{^}, @samp{-} or @samp{\}.
 Thus, @code{"a-zA-Z"} skips over all letters, stopping before the
 first nonletter, and @code{"^a-zA-Z"} skips nonletters stopping before
-the first letter.  See @xref{Regular Expressions}.  Character classes
-can also be used, e.g., @code{"[:alnum:]"}.  See @pxref{Char Classes}.
+the first letter (@pxref{Regular Expressions}).  Character classes
+can also be used, e.g., @code{"[:alnum:]"} (@pxref{Char Classes}).
 
 If @var{limit} is supplied (it must be a number or a marker), it
 specifies the maximum position in the buffer that point can be skipped
-- 
2.7.4


  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-18 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-18 20:57 bug#35793: 27.0.50; Redundant "See" in the ELisp manual Mauro Aranda
2019-05-18 21:00 ` Mauro Aranda [this message]
2019-05-19 12:14 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-19 13:49   ` Mauro Aranda
2019-05-19 17:13     ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-19 18:21       ` Mauro Aranda
2019-05-19 19:06         ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-20 20:55           ` Mauro Aranda
2019-05-25 17:14             ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-22  6:40           ` Eli Zaretskii

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