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[PATCH] maintaining.texi: typo

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From: Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 56261 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#56261: [PATCH] maintaining.texi: typo
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 20:58:53 +0100

On Tue, Jun 28 2022, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, that seems to be phrased in a way that could easily be
> misunderstood.  I've now rephrased it in Emacs 29.

thanks.  if i'm reading the diff correctly:

   +  If you previously went back too far with @kbd{M-,}, @kbd{C-M-,}
   +(@code{xref-go-forward} can be used to go forward again.

could it be that there's a missing ) in the second line? other than
that, it's crystal clear now!

cheers,
jao
-- 
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it"
 -Yogi Berra, baseball coach.

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