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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Message #71 received at 12973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: rms <at> gnu.org, 12973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12973: @: overused in manual
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:16:08 -0500

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Our release strategy makes it difficult to fix these style changes
> now: if we made changes like these, either to the trunk or to the
> emacs-24 branch, that'd make it harder to merge other emacs-24 changes
> into the trunk later.

There's zero problem wrt merging if the changes go to emacs-24 now.
If they go trunk, they will probably create repeated merge annoyances
(like any pervasive formatting change would).
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