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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ido.el doc fixes
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:35:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55y64z8vx6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D6C453A.4020201@gmail.com> (Christoph's message of "Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:00:42 -0700")

Christoph wrote:

> On 2/28/2011 2:03 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> "C-x 4 a" knows how to concatenate several symbols.  You just need to
>> leave point after the closing parenthesis.

I don't think that is correct. You can move point wherever you like. So
long as you have not entered any text for an entry, the next entry from
the same file will merge with it. (If add-log-always-start-new-record is
nil.)

> I don't know what the etiquette is for adding examples like the
> Changelog entry below.

I don't think an example ChangeLog entry is needed for this behaviour.
It's good to try to keep the manual from expanding too much.

> +Multiple changes of the same nature can be combined.

It's better to use the active voice (see tips.texi). Eg "You can combine
multiple changes of the same nature".



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-01  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-28 19:06 ido.el doc fixes Christoph
2011-02-28 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-28 20:01   ` Glenn Morris
2011-02-28 20:44     ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-02-28 21:03       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-01  1:00         ` Christoph
2011-03-01  1:35           ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2011-03-01  2:36             ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-01  4:04               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-01  4:23                 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-02-28 20:42   ` Christoph Scholtes

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