From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 55742@debbugs.gnu.org, salutis@me.com
Subject: bug#55742: 29.0.50; Confusing "pcase" documentation on the web
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 18:52:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831qw8gz41.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1484i50.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:39:55 +0200)
> Cc: 55742@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:39:55 +0200
>
> Rudolf Adamkovič <salutis@me.com> writes:
>
> > In "The pcase macro" documentation on the web
> >
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/pcase-Macro.html
> >
> > has "_" on its own line, surrounded with whitespace. It looks like a
> > dash, and in a graphical browser, one has to select it to discover the
> > mistake. Could we add the word "underscore" somewhere next to it?
>
> Yup. The texi here is
>
> ---
> @table @code
>
> @item _
> Matches any @var{expval}.
> This is also known as @dfn{don't care} or @dfn{wildcard}.
> ---
>
> Anybody know whether we have a convention for adding notes/comments
> after a @code item?
Like this:
@item _@r{ (underscore)}
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2022-05-31 15:21 bug#55742: 29.0.50; Confusing "pcase" documentation on the web Rudolf Adamkovič via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-01 13:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-01 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-06-01 15:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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