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Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:18:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83il3zly84.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:51:39 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:EDXknHfxii/9Pqb1iwE2bloBjdKQc/rXJ38RQtdZJFY9OJ3rHeI TQPnKYlu9Y5fXZcZmYvWMqfoyoeZkt98RFkTwQvrJe5tBsJZA2y7u9o20aa1tO4OF3AfJ3M Jul+XcxCb+khhcj+VhXKg1UbhoV2w0ocYlv8d2xRrx9LbHkeSEIy6Gla00FabJ82GShg69b cdwjNYogs5jxHOmHCr8Vw== UI-OutboundReport: notjunk:1;M01:P0:Gy36oVoq1gw=;HrzseePk5m5y2a67hgtFmWlevN8 ZLvXlhrXqAPq8eUzhO+X9R2C/lbR+qlbQDi9EjyGFPbCG/+vlHMAFNTI6kZZi4ihz63ZXh56S vDCBtsjE8CxaUuWpxFRxJLsC/kZBtCR37c6vhdFdiqNdSuYS2Roo3ku3EI6ERaCzRw+bZncU/ R2cR65NDt+FptjFMgmxaTCTd/dsIGKCbEkJ1jYH8eYwpLuMn+xCPfzahFR25JgBTY9t+mAY6I gFtc0SHQAA7I34GQJxdtj4po19XIbhM3CXVG1L8zJckV8aLuAB/9NDVwP3kiKUl81ks4bMagv l/y+p80JeBJgLFU3IkVb9RhaSuSHCizQs7NwRp8TBj25/QY11sAYfQtRApius+AWebSbGkw6W QPQEvDvh4v+K9g4RZYYDuKQqrxXnfDkiAqes9GV0s9uHU7jnRm03DoiZwHea9xyo5x/NS6Mg6 7d7353zSFgrEHZEkKjbgErLRXonpIE/nAXUAQCjfgDJ2ShN5Ov54e7wgDgr9D+4rAgtPLlT1o uEIle86fZsbSFHOU1V0iuErGiyEvlgS49B6PmlpGq0q3R7EeIb2iGpLrMYHQZAO0yF6BW6CwG yfgfACM9hLoyhRu5izjhLqw14kExjnjovPm//F1rxv0o3N/bghS/WHSMx7StzDTlzAX6uyx+K /eV9RE17spJPWzxjsN58V+2JHcPFmwhuw2hme3bVZkEbEQA9TPGOb7yU90ILLrlE5kJu2ypya 23g0Z2Br6ho3BxYqJQGBKVqcQZcpDP/fM50Cn//3pEGbYNHCIKd4XfIgILeUxt4oIHS6xEfz X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:277905 Archived-At: On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:51:39 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Stephen Berman >> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, manphiz@gmail.com >> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:44:35 +0100 >> >> On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:46:34 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >> >> From: Xiyue Deng >> >> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:56:23 -0800 >> >> >> >> Please find the attached patches for a cumulation of documentation f= ixes >> >> for lispref up to chapter 19 that includes typos, formatting, etc. >> >> Please let me know if any changes need improvements and I'll adjust >> >> accordingly. >> > >> > Thanks. See below. >> [...] >> >> A string is a fixed sequence of characters. It is a type of >> >> -sequence called a @dfn{array}, meaning that its length is fixed and >> >> +sequence called an @dfn{array}, meaning that its length is fixed an= d >> > >> > The "an" here is correct, since in a manual one sees "an array", whic= h >> > is correct English. So I didn't install this part. >> >> You misread the patch, it changes "a" to "an", which makes the text >> correct English. > > Oops. > >> I thought I'd save you some work by installing the patch myself, >> which I just did, but unfortunately to master instead of emacs-29 >> (and also forgot to add the bug number). Should I revert it and >> install to the release branch? Sorry for the trouble. > > You could have simply cherry-picked it to emacs-29. Is it possible to do that with VC? I didn't find the term in the source code, only in admin/notes/git-workflow, which only shows the git command (and says to "add 'Backport:' to the commit string", which is another attention block I could well stumble over...). Steve Berman