From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: 23067@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de
Subject: bug#23067: 25.0.92; A detail in the doc of query-replace
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 15:06:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bn60vqr9.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k2kq27j0.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 25 Mar 2016 13:09:39 +0300")
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> However, I must say that it makes very little sense to me to make such
> corrections only in a couple of functions, when we have gobs of them with
> the same problem in the doc strings, so much so that I wonder whether "end
> of buffer" isn't already a widely accepted synonym of "end of the buffer's
> accessible portion", and we shouldn't bother, certainly not with fixing that
> one function at a time. I won't be surprised if the same issue has crept in
> the manuals as well.
I agree, Eli. Why I applaud the desire for correctness, if something in our
documentation isn't actively producing user confusion, there is no pressing
need to be pedantic. I think "End of buffer" is colloquially understood to be
where M-> takes you, and I've never found myself troubled by the fact that, at
times, there might be more text after that point.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-20 2:02 bug#23067: 25.0.92; A detail in the doc of query-replace Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-20 2:14 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-25 10:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-26 22:06 ` John Wiegley [this message]
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2016-03-25 14:13 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-25 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2016-03-25 14:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-25 15:55 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-25 16:08 ` Drew Adams
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