GNU bug report logs - #15810
24.3.50; inappropriate text in (emacs) `Echo Area'

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:41:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 15810-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 15810-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15810: 24.3.50; inappropriate text in (emacs) `Echo Area'
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:55:36 +0200

> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:39:52 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> 
> This text has no business being there:
> 
> (We have not explained buffers yet; see *note Buffers::,
> for more information about them.)

It is appropriate for when the manual is read as a book, linearly.

> (We have not
> explained variables either; see *note Variables::, for more information
> about them.)

Irrelevant.

This is not a bug, closing.
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 259 days ago.

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