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Re: emacs-26 275e735: More changes in the Emacs manuals


From: Robert Pluim
Subject: Re: emacs-26 275e735: More changes in the Emacs manuals
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:50:59 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (gnu/linux)

address@hidden (Eli Zaretskii) writes:

>    You can use a numeric argument before a self-inserting character to
>  insert multiple copies of it.  This is straightforward when the
> -character is not a digit; for example, @kbd{C-u 6 4 a} inserts 64
> +character is not a digit; for example, @address@hidden 6 4 a}} inserts 64
>  copies of the character @samp{a}.  But this does not work for
> -inserting digits; @kbd{C-u 6 4 1} specifies an argument of 641.  You
> -can separate the argument from the digit to insert with another
> address@hidden; for example, @kbd{C-u 6 4 C-u 1} does insert 64 copies of
> -the character @samp{1}.
> +inserting digits; @address@hidden 6 4 1}} specifies an argument of 641.
> +You can separate the argument from the digit to insert with another
> address@hidden; for example, @address@hidden 6 4 C-u 1}} does insert 64 copies
> +of the character @samp{1}.
>

'does insert' => 'inserts'. There's no contrasting with a previous
'does not' phrase going on.

>    The @dfn{state} of the group indicates whether setting in that group
> -has been edited, set or saved.  @xref{Changing a Variable}.
> +has been edited, set, or saved.  @xref{Changing a Variable}.

Are we standardising on the Oxford comma now? I heartily approve.

Robert



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