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25.1; Index backslash for escape of left-margin paren

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 25195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#25195: 25.1; Index backslash for escape of left-margin paren
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:36:22 -0400

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

> So I don't think this is something that needs expounding upon; closing.

I don't we need to "expound" on anything, the report just asks about
indexing.  So with something like the diff below, if someone sees 

"bla bla
\(foo bar)"

And they wonder "what's that \( thing for?", they could do i \( RET to
find the right spot in the manual.

--- i/doc/emacs/programs.texi
+++ w/doc/emacs/programs.texi
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ Left Margin Paren
 affect the contents of the string, but will prevent that opening
 delimiter from starting a defun.  Here's an example:
 
+@cindex \( in strings
 @example
   (insert "Foo:
 \(bar)

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