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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fix the choked unreality in page Parser State in syntax.texi.
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:02:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834kxw2wb1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191218195423.GA5215@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Wed,  18 Dec 2019 19:54:23 +0000)

> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:54:23 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> The page Parser State in the Elisp manual gives a choked, vague,
> inadequate impression.  The cause is clear - A parser state is exactly
> the return value of parse-partial-sexp, yet that function is not
> mentioned once in the page.
> 
> In fact, the page looks censored to avoid mentioning parse-partial-sexp.
> This is ridiculous and harmful.
> 
> I therefore propose installing the following documentation patch for
> Emacs 27.  It also tidies up one or two untidinesses:

Thanks, this is fine with me, but please wait for someone who knows
syntax-ppss better than I do to agree with the changes.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-19 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-18 19:54 Fix the choked unreality in page Parser State in syntax.texi Alan Mackenzie
2019-12-19 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-12-20 16:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-20 20:37   ` Alan Mackenzie

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