Subject: Re: bug#42591: A minor error in the Elisp manual
From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
To: Jay Bingham <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:43:06 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Jay Bingham <[email-masked]> writes:

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