From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: man/files.texi
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:00:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c532bc$Blat.v2.4$571d36e0@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503270351.j2R3pxo18619@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:51:59 -0600 (CST))
> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:51:59 -0600 (CST)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
>
> The recent addition of auto-revert-check-vc-info to man/files.texi is
> somewhat confusing. It seems to suggest that the normal state of any
> buffer is to have version control info in the mode line. Just
> mentioning VC without reference at that stage is confusing to a reader
> reading the manual back to front, because the concept of VC has not
> yet been introduced at that stage.
Indeed.
> What about the following small change? I can install if desired.
>
> ===File ~/man-files.texi-diff===============================
> *** files.texi 26 Mar 2005 09:57:37 -0600 1.101
> --- files.texi 26 Mar 2005 20:54:06 -0600
How about moving the entire documentation of auto-revert-check-vc-info
to one of the sections that document VC? The section about reverting
could then say something like
xref{..., auto-revert-check-vc-info}, for Auto Revert peculiarities
in buffers that visit files under version control.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-27 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-27 3:51 man/files.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-27 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-03-30 3:14 ` man/files.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-30 4:59 ` man/files.texi Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-22 3:06 man/files.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-22 20:45 ` man/files.texi Richard Stallman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='01c532bc$Blat.v2.4$571d36e0@zahav.net.il' \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).