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28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp

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From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 49278 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:02:20 +0100

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 4:54 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:50:56 +0100
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 49278 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 3:32 PM Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Your changes were not only for the doc string.  But if you want to
> > > > focus on the doc string, would the following be okay?
> > > >
> > > >   Major mode for editing programs in Common Lisp and other similar Lisps.
> > >
> > > It'd be a big improvement, yes, thanks.
> >
> > I concur. A big improvement.
>
> Then let's install this.

Done.

> What about the change to the manual?

Still think it should be done, but it's not ultra-important.  It's in
a section about a part of Emacs almost noone uses nowadays,
because `run-inferior-lisp` has been superceded by programs
such as SLY and SLIME.  It's just inaccurate in its mention of
lisp-mode, as I explained.

João

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