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bug#68375: 29.1; lispref documentation fixes
From: |
Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
bug#68375: 29.1; lispref documentation fixes |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:18:48 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:51:39 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, manphiz@gmail.com
>> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:44:35 +0100
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:46:34 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> >> From: Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:56:23 -0800
>> >>
>> >> Please find the attached patches for a cumulation of documentation fixes
>> >> for lispref up to chapter 19 that includes typos, formatting, etc.
>> >> Please let me know if any changes need improvements and I'll adjust
>> >> accordingly.
>> >
>> > Thanks. See below.
>> [...]
>> >> A string is a fixed sequence of characters. It is a type of
>> >> -sequence called a @dfn{array}, meaning that its length is fixed and
>> >> +sequence called an @dfn{array}, meaning that its length is fixed and
>> >
>> > The "an" here is correct, since in a manual one sees "an array", which
>> > is correct English. So I didn't install this part.
>>
>> You misread the patch, it changes "a" to "an", which makes the text
>> correct English.
>
> Oops.
>
>> I thought I'd save you some work by installing the patch myself,
>> which I just did, but unfortunately to master instead of emacs-29
>> (and also forgot to add the bug number). Should I revert it and
>> install to the release branch? Sorry for the trouble.
>
> You could have simply cherry-picked it to emacs-29.
Is it possible to do that with VC? I didn't find the term in the source
code, only in admin/notes/git-workflow, which only shows the git command
(and says to "add 'Backport:' to the commit string", which is another
attention block I could well stumble over...).
Steve Berman
- bug#68375: 29.1; lispref documentation fixes, Xiyue Deng, 2024/01/10
- bug#68375: 29.1; lispref documentation fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/01/11
- bug#68375: 29.1; lispref documentation fixes,
Stephen Berman <=
- bug#68375: 29.1; lispref documentation fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/01/11
- bug#68375: 29.1; lispref documentation fixes, Stephen Berman, 2024/01/11
- bug#68375: 29.1; lispref documentation fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/01/11
bug#68375: 29.1; lispref documentation fixes, Xiyue Deng, 2024/01/11
bug#68375: 29.1; lispref documentation fixes, Richard Stallman, 2024/01/11