GNU bug report logs - #37930
26.3; Elisp manual: please remove index entry `seq library'

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 20:54:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 26.3

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 37930 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37930: 26.3;
 Elisp manual: please remove index entry `seq library'
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 10:18:20 +0300

tags 37930 wontfix
close 37930
thanks

> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:53:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> 
>  commentary, in a Lisp library
>  dynamic-library-alist
>  find library 
>  image-load-path-for-library
>  library
>  library compilation
>  library header comments
>  library search
>  Lisp library
>  load-library
>  locate-library
>  seq library
> 
> `seq library' does not belong here.

Disagree.  You are assessing index entries from a completely wrong
angle.

> (Either that or entries also belong for some or all of the umpteen
> other libraries provided in an Emacs distribution.)

May I suggest to re-read the well-known quotation about consistency by
Ralph Waldo Emerson?

There's no need for consistency here.
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