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* Re: emacs-28 b7d7c2d9e9: Add cross-reference to alternative syntaxes for Unicode
@ 2022-10-14 15:56 Eli Zaretskii
  2022-10-14 16:17 ` Robert Pluim
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-10-14 15:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert Pluim; +Cc: emacs-devel

> +  An alternative to using non-@acronym{ASCII} characters directly is
> +to use one of the character escape syntaxes described in
> +@pxref{General Escape Syntax,,, elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference
> +Manual}, as they allow all Unicode codepoints to be specified using
> +only @acronym{ASCII} characters.

IMO, if we think this alternative needs to be described in the Emacs
manual, we should describe it, not cross-link to the ELisp manual.
References to ELisp are only justified when they refer to Lisp code or
details of some functions or variables, not to user commands.



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2022-10-14 15:56 emacs-28 b7d7c2d9e9: Add cross-reference to alternative syntaxes for Unicode Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-14 16:17 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-14 17:42   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-18 15:05     ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-18 15:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-18 15:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-18 16:06           ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-21 19:42         ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-22  6:19           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-22  7:43             ` Po Lu
2022-10-22 20:05               ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24  4:40                 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-24 13:06                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-22 17:22             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-24  3:05               ` RE: [External] : " Christopher Dimech
2022-10-22 20:06             ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-23  5:15               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-24 19:31                 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24 19:44                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-24 19:57                   ` Christopher Dimech

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