From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:03:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <50AFCDA1.8020500@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353722678 8397 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2012 02:04:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:04:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12973@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 24 03:04:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc56u-0000CK-NN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:04:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54040 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc56k-0004nd-1x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:04:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54959) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc56g-0004mc-OW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:04:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc56e-0007BW-SQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:04:34 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc56e-0007BS-PF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:04:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc585-0003Af-K4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:06:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:06:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12973 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 12973-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12973.135372270912128 (code B ref 12973); Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:06:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12973) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Nov 2012 02:05:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35628 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc57E-00039Y-Lo for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:05:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:52179) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc57B-00039Q-Dl for 12973@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:05:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc55h-0003cN-L0; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:03:33 -0500 X-Spook: Adriatic Hugo Chavez nuclear Delta Force lynch security X-Ran: GW/D^;O|N{}L}s'B:#v{,WZ-wZUbXv-.3oV`$?meU]G^v_nK},)8&h$ZodX8xSei;:cO*] X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <50AFCDA1.8020500@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:25:21 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67384 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: > Other times, it's being used in places where punctuation > would be better, e.g., "(e.g.@: spaces)". Stylistically, I prefer the current form in at least some cases. Anyway, I think a patch of this kind if applied to trunk is likely to lead to repeated merge conflicts coming from emacs-24. So maybe wait till there is no active branch.