GNU bug report logs - #6374
23.2; manual language fixes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Warren L Dodge <warrend <at> Tektronix.com>

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 01:14:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 23.2

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: warrend <at> tektronix.com, 6374 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6374: 23.2; manual language fixes
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:36:34 -0400
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 05:05:45 +0200
> Cc: Warren L Dodge <warrend <at> tektronix.com>, 6374 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> >> From: Warren L Dodge <warrend <at> Tektronix.com>
> >> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 17:45:56 -0700
> >> Cc:
> >>
> >> If the radix is greater than 10, some letters starting with `a' serve as
> >> part of a character code, just like digits.                  ^
> >>                                                              ^
> >> Not sure but it seems something is wrong here ---------------^ Maybe is
> >> should be 'a'-'f'. Anyway it doesn't seem to read as I would think.
> >
> > Emacs supports radix values beyond 16, so a-f is not enough.  It's
> > actually a-z.
> 
> 
> I would expect it to be a-w (since then 0-9a-w are 32 "digits").

??? What's so magical about the number 32?




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