From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-28 b7d7c2d9e9: Add cross-reference to alternative syntaxes for Unicode
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:17:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mt9yxtvi.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831qra8klo.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:56:35 +0300")
>>>>> On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:56:35 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>> + An alternative to using non-@acronym{ASCII} characters directly is
>> +to use one of the character escape syntaxes described in
>> +@pxref{General Escape Syntax,,, elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference
>> +Manual}, as they allow all Unicode codepoints to be specified using
>> +only @acronym{ASCII} characters.
Eli> IMO, if we think this alternative needs to be described in the Emacs
Eli> manual, we should describe it, not cross-link to the ELisp manual.
Eli> References to ELisp are only justified when they refer to Lisp code or
Eli> details of some functions or variables, not to user commands.
Hmm, so move or copy "General Escape Syntax" under
(emacs)International somewhere, and refer to it from the "You can
insert non-ASCII characters or search for them" section of that node
(since thatʼs where we talk about C-x 8)?
Robert
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-14 15:56 emacs-28 b7d7c2d9e9: Add cross-reference to alternative syntaxes for Unicode Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-14 16:17 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2022-10-14 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-18 15:05 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-18 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-18 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-18 16:06 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-21 19:42 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-22 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-22 7:43 ` Po Lu
2022-10-22 20:05 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24 4:40 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-24 13:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-22 17:22 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-24 3:05 ` RE: [External] : " Christopher Dimech
2022-10-22 20:06 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-23 5:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-24 19:31 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-24 19:57 ` Christopher Dimech
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