GNU bug report logs - #14212
24.3.50; Dired-X manual - variables have no `Variable' or `User Option' headings

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:38:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 14212 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 14212 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#14212: 24.3.50;
 Dired-X manual - variables have no `Variable' or `User Option'
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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:06:40 -0400

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:
>
>> Subject line says it all.  The manual does not respect the style of
>> other Emacs doc, such as the Elisp manual.
>
> I'm not quite sure what you mean here.  There's nodes like "Advanced
> Cleaning Variables" -- what are you missing?

I think the problem is that doc/misc/dired-x.texi says stuff like

    @table @code

    @vindex dired-omit-mode
    @item dired-omit-mode
    [...]

Where it should say

    @defvar dired-omit-mode
    [...]
    @end defvar
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