bug#36412: Typo in elisp manual 28.14

bug#36412: Typo in elisp manual 28.14

[Michael Wu]

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It says

"In addition, each buffer maintains a list of “next buffers”, which is
a list of buffers re-shown by ‘switch-to-prev-buffer’ (see below).  This
..."

I think the word "buffer" should be changed to "window".

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bug#36412: Typo in elisp manual 28.14

[Stefan Kangas]

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tags 36412 + patch
quit

Michael Wu <john.michael.wu@gmail.com> writes:
> "In addition, each buffer maintains a list of “next buffers”, which is
> a list of buffers re-shown by ‘switch-to-prev-buffer’ (see below).  This ..."
>
> I think the word "buffer" should be changed to "window".

I think you're right.  See trivial patch attached below.

Thanks,
Stefan Kangas

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From 63ea6411e63c46970e448889265931e20a5ecba7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 03:16:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix typo in windows.texi

* doc/lispref/windows.texi (Window History): Fix typo.  (Bug#36412)
---
 doc/lispref/windows.texi | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/lispref/windows.texi b/doc/lispref/windows.texi
index a6cb86eb84..b5ca053e46 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/windows.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/windows.texi
@@ -3874,7 +3874,7 @@ Window History
 @code{window-prev-buffers}.
 @end defun
 
-In addition, each buffer maintains a list of @dfn{next buffers}, which
+In addition, each window maintains a list of @dfn{next buffers}, which
 is a list of buffers re-shown by @code{switch-to-prev-buffer} (see
 below).  This list is mainly used by @code{switch-to-prev-buffer} and
 @code{switch-to-next-buffer} for choosing buffers to switch to.
-- 
2.21.0

bug#36412: Typo in elisp manual 28.14

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 03:23:44 +0200
> Cc: 36412@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > "In addition, each buffer maintains a list of “next buffers”, which is
> > a list of buffers re-shown by ‘switch-to-prev-buffer’ (see below).  This ..."
> >
> > I think the word "buffer" should be changed to "window".
> 
> I think you're right.  See trivial patch attached below.

Thanks, pushed to the emacs-26 branch.

Nitpicking: one-line log entries don't need a header line, especially
if that header line just repeats what the entry says.