GNU bug report logs - #43633
28.0.50; Include definitions in glossary for: extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 17:08:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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Subject: bug#43633: closed (28.0.50; Include definitions in glossary for:
 extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor)
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 06:06:01 +0000
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From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50;
 Include definitions in glossary for: extensible, customizable,
 self-documenting, real-time display editor
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:06:18 +0200
This is feature request or attempt to make Emacs more beginner
friendly:

When one goes into Info file, there is sentence:

Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time
display editor.

In my opinion, those terms are special in Emacs, and should be
described as terms in the Glossary section of Emacs Info file.

Jean


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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Cc: 43633-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43633: 28.0.50; Include definitions in glossary for:
 extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 09:05:20 +0300
> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 23:33:29 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
> Cc: 43633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > > Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time
> > > display editor.
> > > 
> > > In my opinion, those terms are special in Emacs, and should be
> > > described as terms in the Glossary section of Emacs Info file.
> > 
> > I don't understand: these terms are explained right there in the
> > section which starts with that sentence.  Why would we need to explain
> > them in the Glossary?
> 
> By the sole definition of what glossary represents.

But those terms aren't used anywhere else in the manual, are they?
Actually, "self-documenting" _is_ used elsewhere, but then it's
already in the Glossary.  The rest are used exactly once, in this
section.

So I see no need to change anything in this regard, and I'm closing
this bug report.


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