GNU bug report logs - #22625
24.5; Please add index entry for `~ filename suffix' to manual for node `Backup Names'

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 23:05:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.5

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 22625-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 22625-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22625: 24.5;
 Please add index entry for `~ filename suffix' to manual for node
 `Backup Names'
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 15:39:44 +0200

> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:04:27 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> 
> See http://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/20216/105.
> 
> It's a reasonable question.  A user sees files with `~' at the end of
> the name, and wonders what they are.  How to find info about that in the
> manual?

I added index entries, but I really doubt this will help
discoverability: there are 12 index entries in the manual that include
"~", and the new one I added is the 5th hit...
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