From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix the choked unreality in page Parser State in syntax.texi. Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:02:10 +0200 Message-ID: <834kxw2wb1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20191218195423.GA5215@ACM> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="179660"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 19 16:03:28 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ihxKo-000kWb-OI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:03:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43316 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ihxKn-0006H1-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:03:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ihxJm-0004gL-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:02:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34652) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ihxJi-0004kO-OJ; Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:02:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4265 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ihxJh-0005O5-W2; Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:02:18 -0500 In-reply-to: <20191218195423.GA5215@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:54:23 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:243476 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:54:23 +0000 > From: Alan Mackenzie > > 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.