From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Siraphob \(Ben\) Phipathananunth" <siraben@disroot.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Duplicate Phrasing in Emacs Manual
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 20:35:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834lkc4bk2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8641b43c-cf98-e90b-4113-59b4e6f79eb1@disroot.org> (siraben@disroot.org)
> From: "Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth" <siraben@disroot.org>
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 08:44:34 +0700
>
> On page 70 of the Emacs 26 manual (10.8 Bookmarks) the phrase
>
> > The prototypical use of bookmarks is to record where you were
> > reading in various files.
>
> After listing out various keybindings, the manual continues with
>
> > The prototypical use for bookmarks is to record one current position
> > in each of several files. So the command C-x r m, which sets a
> > bookmark ...
>
> This is potentially confusing, so might I suggest changing the second
> paragraph to
>
> > The command C-x r m, which sets a bookmark...
Thanks, I've improved the wording there.
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2018-04-15 1:44 Duplicate Phrasing in Emacs Manual Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth
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