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bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quot
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:02:00 +0300 |
> Cc: 21472@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:48:51 -0700
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > We index all terminology introduced in a manual, as a matter of
> > principle.
>
> That's news to me, and the manuals often don't index terminology within @dfn.
> For example, doc/emacs/basic.texi says @dfn{minor modes} but does not index
> the
> term. A quick eyeball of that file suggests that only about half of its
> terms
> enclosed in @dfn are indexed. I'm not opposed to having more index entries
> for
> @dfns if someone wants to do it, but it doesn't appear to be a hard rule.
Many rules of good documentation are followed only partially. That
doesn't make them any lesser.
This rule should be obvious: if you introduce and explain some
terminology, you should always consider the possibility that someone
will want to read about that terminology, and so it should be in the
index.
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, (continued)
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/15
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/15
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Drew Adams, 2015/09/15
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Drew Adams, 2015/09/15
bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Drew Adams, 2015/09/15
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/16