Subject: bug#50731: `progress-reporter-update' docstring and `backward-sexp' interaction

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:12:44 -0700

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> The docstring of `progress-reporter-update' contains the following text:
>>
>>     If REPORTER is a numerical progress reporter---i.e. if it was
>>      made using non-nil MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments to
>>      `make-progress-reporter'---then VALUE should be a number between
>>      MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE.
>
> I think the ---s here should just be made into parentheses.

That would be the easiest option by far.  Maybe that's all we need to do
here, really.