GNU bug report logs - #38736
26.3; ellipsis in `*Messages*', doc of `format' etc.

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

Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 21:04:01 UTC

Severity: minor

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: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 38736 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: bug#38736: 26.3; ellipsis in `*Messages*', doc of `format' etc.
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 18:23:34 +0200

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
> Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org,  drew.adams <at> oracle.com
> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 04:24:07 +0100
> 
> But in this sentence in the docstring of `message':
> 
> "The first argument is a format control string [...]"
> 
> "format" could get quoted so that it gets transformed into a link to the
> `format' help page - right?

No, because that "format" is not a reference to 'format' the
function.  There's a link to 'format-message' a little bit below that,
so I think we are fine on that front.
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