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bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals)
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals) |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:44:49 -0700 (PDT) |
> I don't think I understand (and if I do, I disagree). The text says:
> if N is negative, ... leaving -N spaces before point.
> When N is negative, -N is positive, so the original text sounds
> correct to me.
Yes, it's correct. But it's not obvious - it's
easy to misread it.
Of course, it's not possible to leave a negative
number of spaces (at least I don't know what that
would mean). A careful reader will figure it out,
but that might mean having to read it more than
once.
I think it would be clearer (by reminding that N
is negative) to say "leaving (abs N) spaces..."
(I do that in some of my doc strings, FWIW.)
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), (continued)
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Sebastian Urban, 2019/06/04
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/04
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Sebastian Urban, 2019/06/05
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/05
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Sebastian Urban, 2019/06/06
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Sebastian Urban, 2019/06/06
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/09
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/09
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Sebastian Urban, 2019/06/10
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/10
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals),
Drew Adams <=
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Sebastian Urban, 2019/06/11
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/11
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Sebastian Urban, 2019/06/12
- bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Drew Adams, 2019/06/12
bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/03