From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Visuwesh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#60639: Improvement to the Wording of GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:28:36 +0530 Message-ID: <874jk7g2c3.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15622"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: Xie Shynur , 60639@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 06 09:59:26 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qdnRd-0003pz-9a for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:58:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([118.185.152.162]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c13-20020a170902d48d00b001bee782a1desm10484239plg.181.2023.09.06.00.58.39 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:58:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Tue, 5 Sep 2023 16:38:55 -0700") 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:269491 Archived-At: [=E0=AE=9A=E0=AF=86=E0=AE=B5=E0=AF=8D=E0=AE=B5=E0=AE=BE=E0=AE=AF=E0=AF=8D = =E0=AE=9A=E0=AF=86=E0=AE=AA=E0=AF=8D=E0=AE=9F=E0=AE=AE=E0=AF=8D=E0=AE=AA=E0= =AE=B0=E0=AF=8D 05, 2023] Stefan Kangas wrote: > tags 60639 wontfix > close 60639 > thanks > > Xie Shynur writes: > >> In the section 2.1 "Printed Representation and Read Syntax" >> (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Printed-Repre= sentation.html), >> word "hash notation" is used to refer to the symbol "#". >> But it may well confuse non-native English speakers, because the "hash" = is also associated with "hash function". >> >> A better name for "#" is "number sign". > > I don't think "number sign" is very clear, and to be honest I think > our target audience should have to learn that "#" is called a hash. FWIW, we never use "#" before numbers, we simply write "No." so "number sign" is an alien term. People here call "#" hash or hashtag. > So we won't be making this change. Sorry. > > Closing this as wontfix.