Subject: bug#18957: closed (Re: bug#30478: 26.0.91; Add index entries to Elisp manual for#: syntax)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 09:26:02 +0000

Your bug report

#30478: 25.0.50; document #: in Elisp manual

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#30478: 26.0.91; Add index entries to Elisp manual for#: syntax
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:25:06 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:55:50 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> 
> Subject line says it all.  Targets would be nodes `Symbol Type'
> and `Output Variables'.

The index entry is already there, but it cannot be #: because Info
cannot cope with a colon in a menu, and index in Info is just a large
menu.  So in Info we use "#COLON instead (we do use #: in the printed
manual).

Subject: 25.0.50; document #: in Elisp manual
From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 08:43:50 -0800 (PST)
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

`#:' should be documented properly in the Elisp manual.  There are just
a few in-passing references to it, which do not explain it.

The Lisp reader should be documented well, from a user point of view,
with everything affecting it explained - preferably in one place.

That includes `#<', `#:', `#N=', `#N#', `#@COUNT', `#$', `#.', comments,
number syntax (including non-10 radix), \-escaped newlines and spaces,
hash tables.

In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2014-10-20 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 118168 [email-masked]
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --enable-checking=yes,glyphs CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'