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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 43633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bugs <at> gnu.support
Subject: bug#43633: 28.0.50; Include definitions in glossary for: extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 09:27:04 +0300
> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:42:47 -0400
> Cc: 43633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>   > Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time
>   > display editor.
> 
> Are there any editors in widespread use that are not real-time and
> display?  I know some still exist -- for instance, ed -- but perhaps
> it is no longer useful to say "real-time display" in that sentence.

The manual text (in "Intro") no longer says "real-time", that was only
left in the sentence that starts the Top node.  I've now made that say
the same as Intro does.




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