From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: documentation bug Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 21:02:55 +0300 Message-ID: References: <50496f77-5c30-400d-ab9b-3ec3ffa484e7@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210269856 461 80.91.229.12 (8 May 2008 18:04:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 18:04:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: harven , Richard Stallman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 08 20:04:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JuATw-00066T-Ph for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 20:04:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48404 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JuATE-0004dX-Jg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 14:03:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JuAT9-0004Yp-5v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 14:03:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JuAT6-0004Qz-9X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 14:03:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57691 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JuAT6-0004Qq-5V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 14:03:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il ([84.95.2.1]:9544) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JuAT0-0001nt-QB; Thu, 08 May 2008 14:03:43 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([83.130.255.47]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K0K004I5ASWID30@i-mtaout1.012.net.il>; Thu, 08 May 2008 21:17:20 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <50496f77-5c30-400d-ab9b-3ec3ffa484e7@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17937 Archived-At: > From: harven > Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 09:49:20 -0700 (PDT) > > In Gnu Emacs Manual version 22.1, > there is an entry "television" in the index. > It refers to section Appending Kills. > I can't see anything relevant to "television" > in this section, so may be the entry should > be removed. It was a joke. The version of the manual from long ago had this text at the beginning of this node: Normally, each kill command pushes a new block onto the kill ring. However, two or more kill commands in a row combine their text into a single entry, so that a single @kbd{C-y} gets it all back as it was before it was killed. This means that you don't have to kill all the text in one command; you can keep killing line after line, or word after word, until you have killed it all, and you can still get it all back at once. (Thus we join television in leading people to kill thoughtlessly.) The sentence in parentheses was removed somewhere between Emacs 18.59 and Emacs 19.34, perhaps because someone found it tasteless or offending, but the index entry remained. Richard, can you shed some light on this? Should we just remove the index entry?