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From: Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: emacs manual
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:36:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tz4zmfn6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)

I was just navigating my way back to a point in the Emacs Manual, the
section, `22 File Handling'.  I did `t', `m' and then typed

file h <TAB>

``[No Match]'' was the message that I got.

From the top level of the manual, ``Files'' is the name of the section.
I remembered the last chapter name or section name I'd come across
(again, `22 File Handling') as I do when I close a book and put it down.

Isn't this a disjunction?

My post may be interpreted as a complaint, but this looked like an
example of the opacity that I sometimes perceive in the documentation of
Emacs but don't know how to verbalize.

Just looking for an explanation.





             reply	other threads:[~2009-04-08 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-08 13:36 Sean Sieger [this message]
2009-04-08 14:35 ` emacs manual Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-10 14:07   ` Sean Sieger
2009-04-08 14:37 ` tyler

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