bug#42591: A minor error in the Elisp manual

[Stefan Kangas]

Jay Bingham <binghamjc@msn.com> writes:

> In the Elisp manual in section 9.2 Defining Symbols, the first sentence in 
> the third paragraph says:
>
> In principle, you can assign a variable value to any symbol with setq, 
> whether not it has first been defined as a variable.
>
> I believe that the word 'or' is missing between the words 'whether' and 
> 'not', and that the sentence should read:
>
> In principle, you can assign a variable value to any symbol with setq, 
> whether or not it has first been defined as a variable.

Thanks, now fixed on the emacs-27 branch.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas