GNU bug report logs - #12973
@: overused in manual

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:27:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: @: overused in manual
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:25:21 -0800

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Tags: patch
Severity: minor

The Emacs manual uses "@:" in many places where it needn't.
Sometimes the @: has no effect, e.g., "Jay K.@: Adams".
Other times, it's being used in places where punctuation
would be better, e.g., "(e.g.@: spaces)".  I'm attaching a
proposed patch.

[at-colon.txt.gz (application/x-gzip, attachment)]
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