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28.1; Description errors in Emacs's info manual for Gnus key bindings

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From: Mark Harig <idirectscm <at> aim.com>
To: Emacs Bugs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 28.1; Description errors in Emacs's info manual for Gnus key bindings
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 15:24:57 +0000 (UTC)

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The following two errors are in the Emacs info manual for Emacs 28.1 (C-h r):
1. In "(emacs) Gnus Group Buffer", the description for the key   ‘u’ reads:
      Toggle the subscription status of the group      (‘gnus-group-toggle-subscription’) on the current line.      Invoking this on a killed or zombie group turns it into      an unsubscribed group.
   But C-h c for the key ‘u’ in the GNUS *Group* buffer reports:
      u runs the command gnus-group-toggle-subscription-at-point
   Likewise, C-h k for the key ‘u’ reports:
      u runs the command gnus-group-toggle-subscription-at-point      (found in gnus-group-mode-map), which is an interactive      native compiled Lisp function in ‘gnus-group.el’.
 So, the trailing text "-at-point" is missing from the function name bound to the ‘u’ key in the Emacs info manual and needs to be added to the function name in the description in the info manual.
   (Note: Capital ‘U’ in the GNUS *Group* buffer is mapped   to ‘gnus-group-toggle-subscription’.)

2. In "(emacs) Gnus Summary Buffer", the key sequence for   the command ‘gnus-summary-search-article-forward’ is   incorrect.  The info manual reads:
      ‘M-s REGEXP <RET>’           Search forward for articles containing a match for           REGEXP (‘gnus-summary-search-article-forward’).
   But C-h c M-s M-s reports:
      M-s M-s runs the command gnus-summary-search-article-forward
   Likewise, the Gnus menu for the GNUS *Summary* buffer   lists:
      Search articles forward...  M-s M-s
   So, an additional M-s is needed in the Emacs info manual   for the key sequence for searching forward in articles:
      ‘M-s M-s REGEXP <RET>’
(End of error report.)

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From: Mark Harig <idirectscm <at> aim.com>
To: "58145 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <58145 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Formatting of lines in this report.
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:02:06 +0000 (UTC)

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The display of this report at https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=58145 appears to omit many newline characters that were in the original mail/report.  Is this expected, or is there something that can be done to prevent this?  (Thank you for any help that can prevent this in future reports.)
The original formatting (more readable) of the report can be seen by clicking on the "Message part 2" link at the bottom of https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=58145.
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Message #11 received at 58145 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mark Harig <idirectscm <at> aim.com>
Cc: 58145 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58145: Formatting of lines in this report.
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:08:43 +0300

> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:02:06 +0000 (UTC)
> From:  Mark Harig via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> The display of this report at https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=58145 appears to omit many
> newline characters that were in the original mail/report.  Is this expected, or is there something that can be
> done to prevent this?  (Thank you for any help that can prevent this in future reports.)
> 
> The original formatting (more readable) of the report can be seen by clicking on the "Message part 2" link at
> the bottom of https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=58145.

Your message included a text/plain part (which was in quoted-printable
encoding), and a text/html part.  The latter displays as you'd like,
but the former is what you see on debbugs.  The reason is that the MUA
you are using produces strange EOL sequences, which have no indication
of a newline: NBSP SPC NBSP.  You can clearly see that if you click
the "mbox" link on the message header line, which leads to this:

  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=58145;mbox=yes;msg=5

Download the mbox file and examine it, and you will see what I
describe above.

So I think the problem is with the configuration of your MUA.

Message #14 received at 58145 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Mark Harig <idirectscm <at> aim.com>
Cc: 58145 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58145: 28.1; Description errors in Emacs's info manual for
 Gnus key bindings
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:05:59 +0200

Mark Harig <idirectscm <at> aim.com> writes:

> The following two errors are in the Emacs info manual for Emacs 28.1 (C-h r):

I've now fixed this on the emacs-28 branch.

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