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[PATCH] maintaining.texi: typo

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From: Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 56261 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56261: [PATCH] maintaining.texi: typo
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:14:04 +0100

On Mon, Jun 27 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>  @findex xref-go-forward
>> -  Go forward to a place from where you previously went back using @kbd{M-,}.
>> +  Go forward to a place from where you previously went back using @kbd{C-M-,}.
>
> That is not a typo.  After typing M-., you can type M-, to return to
> where you typed M-. and then you can type C-M-, to go to the place
> from which you returned.

i misread that "using" as if it had a "by" in front.  in the rendered
texinfo (at least for me), that paragraph reads as:

      Go forward to a place from where you previously went back using
   ‘M-,’.  This is useful if you find that you went back too far.

and there's no reference anywhere to xref-go-forward, so it's hard to
infer that that sentence is referring to that command.

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