GNU bug report logs - #62939
29.0.90; Apparent problem with use-package documentation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Mat Marcus" <mmarcus <at> emarcus.org>

Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:21:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.90

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 62939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Mat Marcus" <mmarcus <at> emarcus.org>
Cc: 62939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62939: 29.0.90;
 Apparent problem with use-package documentation
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:39:34 +0300
> From: "Mat Marcus" <mmarcus <at> emarcus.org>
> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 08:55:20 -0600
> 
> In GNU Emacs 29.0.90 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
> 3.24.37, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2023-04-18 built on ring
> 
> The "Getting Started" topic of the use-package info contains the
> following unclear language in paragraph 2:
> 
> “     (require 'use-package)
> 
>    The above makes the ‘use-macro’ for in the rest of your init file.
> In this manual, we call each call to ‘use-macro’ a “declaration”, to
> highlight the declarative nature of its semantic.”

I cannot find anything like that in use-package.info that shipped with
the Emacs 29.0.90 pretest.  Are you sure you have an up-to-date
use-package.info manual?





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