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emacs-28 cd9dd26: Format and index concept 'predicate' in ELisp Intro


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: emacs-28 cd9dd26: Format and index concept 'predicate' in ELisp Intro
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 08:04:29 -0500 (EST)

branch: emacs-28
commit cd9dd26d24c0e97b980fba44c2f8f9e1d6c919a5
Author: YugaEgo <yet@ego.team>
Commit: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>

    Format and index concept 'predicate' in ELisp Intro
    
    * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (Wrong Type of Argument):
    Add index and format definition (bug#52197).
    
    Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
---
 doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi 
b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
index e306458..bd5decf 100644
--- a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
+++ b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
@@ -2146,9 +2146,10 @@ number---the number of characters the location is from 
the beginning
 of the buffer.)  In Emacs Lisp, @code{+} can be used to add the
 numeric value of marker positions as numbers.
 
+@cindex @samp{predicate} defined
 The @samp{p} of @code{number-or-marker-p} is the embodiment of a
 practice started in the early days of Lisp programming.  The @samp{p}
-stands for ``predicate''.  In the jargon used by the early Lisp
+stands for @dfn{predicate}.  In the jargon used by the early Lisp
 researchers, a predicate refers to a function to determine whether some
 property is true or false.  So the @samp{p} tells us that
 @code{number-or-marker-p} is the name of a function that determines



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