From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>
Cc: 37324@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37324: Small typo in Emacs manual (frame parameters)
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2019 05:35:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pnkb4ish.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0e607c48-e932-593d-b603-56a102fd4926@gmail.com> (message from Sebastian Urban on Sat, 7 Sep 2019 21:14:31 +0200)
> From: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>
> Cc: 37324@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 21:14:31 +0200
>
> >> I think there is one unnecessary "space".
> >
> > That's on purpose: the example tries to align this line with the
> > next.
>
> Ok, so I'm guessing that the number of spaces - in this example -
> before and after the dot is insignificant from perspective of the code
> (well, perhaps 1 is needed). But... is changing the insides of the
> code example just to align it to the next line is reasonable? If
> everywhere (I think) there is PARAMETER-ONE_SPACE-DOT-ONE_SPACE-VALUE
> perhaps it would be better to stick to that, because otherwise someone
> may think that there is an error in the code example.
I don't see anything unreasonable in that example. Whitespace is
insignificant in cons cells (and in many other places in Lisp).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-08 2:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-06 17:24 bug#37324: Small typo in Emacs manual (frame parameters) Sebastian Urban
2019-09-06 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-07 19:14 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-09-08 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-09-08 11:00 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-09-08 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-17 10:17 ` Stefan Kangas
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