From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>
Cc: 35885@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:44:49 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e89d8891-3bb9-43ae-a39c-d24b65207a0f@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83tvcx9xyl.fsf@gnu.org>>
> I don't think I understand (and if I do, I disagree). The text says:
> if N is negative, ... leaving -N spaces before point.
> When N is negative, -N is positive, so the original text sounds
> correct to me.
Yes, it's correct. But it's not obvious - it's
easy to misread it.
Of course, it's not possible to leave a negative
number of spaces (at least I don't know what that
would mean). A careful reader will figure it out,
but that might mean having to read it more than
once.
I think it would be clearer (by reminding that N
is negative) to say "leaving (abs N) spaces..."
(I do that in some of my doc strings, FWIW.)
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2019-06-10 17:44 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-05-24 15:59 bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals) Sebastian Urban
2019-06-02 22:50 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-03 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-04 10:48 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-04 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-05 10:40 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-05 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-06 9:49 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-06 21:19 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-09 8:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-09 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-10 10:30 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-10 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-11 10:32 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-11 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-12 8:44 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-12 13:25 ` Drew Adams
2019-06-03 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-10 20:02 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-13 9:11 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-13 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-13 14:06 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-13 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-14 0:01 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-15 13:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-15 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-15 13:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-15 14:11 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-16 11:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-16 13:00 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-18 14:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-18 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-19 10:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-19 8:44 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-19 10:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-19 12:14 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-20 12:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 13:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-20 18:24 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-22 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 10:19 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-10-19 18:52 ` Sebastian Urban
2021-05-12 14:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-13 11:48 ` Sebastian Urban
2021-05-16 13:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-18 9:17 ` Sebastian Urban
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