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> From: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:52:48 +0530
> 
> 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?