From: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reference to ‘alist’ in Emacs Lisp Manual without previous explanation
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:40:58 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tuulrn99.fsf@codeisgreat.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o8ktjjok.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:55:23 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > If you are reading the manual in order, you should have read 2.4.6.3
>> > "Association List Type", where "alist" is explained, before you got to
>> > 2.4.12. How come you didn't see that?
>>
>> I missed it completely while reading. Completely my fault. The manual is
>> absolute truth.
>
> Maybe you could tell how you missed that, and it will help us make
> this more prominent?
I tried to replay what I could have done, but could not find a way to
miss the topic. Usually, when I read sequencially, I use SPACE key to go
to next page. This cannot miss the section. And since this section
2.4.6.3 is at the same level as 2.4.6.2 I cannot miss it with ‘n’ as
well.
So, I guess, it just slipped from my mind.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-23 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-22 5:40 Reference to ‘alist’ in Emacs Lisp Manual without previous explanation Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-22 6:42 ` Subject: " Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-10-22 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-22 15:31 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-23 7:22 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-23 10:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 15:10 ` Pankaj Jangid [this message]
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