GNU bug report logs - #50303
Add interlinks to docstrings of inverse abbrev

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Fixed in version 28.0.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 50303 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50303: Add interlinks to docstrings of inverse abbrev
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 19:08:40 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: 50303 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:37:13 +0300
> 
> > If you like what the manual says, why not say in the doc string what
> > the manual says, or some simple variant of that?  I doubt that you'll
> > be able to come up with a significantly shorter description that is
> > still clear enough.
> 
> So here it uses the text copied from the manual:

Thanks, I think this is very good, but I'd like to suggest a minor
stylistic improvement:

> +`inverse-add-mode-abbrev' performs the opposite task: if the abbrev

I would begin this by saying

  See also `inverse-add-mode-abbrev', which performs the opposite
  task: ...
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