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29.1; lispref documentation fixes

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 68375 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, manphiz <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#68375: 29.1; lispref documentation fixes
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:18:48 +0100

On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:51:39 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
>> Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org,  manphiz <at> gmail.com
>> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:44:35 +0100
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:46:34 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> >> From: Xiyue Deng <manphiz <at> gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:56:23 -0800
>> >>
>> >> Please find the attached patches for a cumulation of documentation fixes
>> >> for lispref up to chapter 19 that includes typos, formatting, etc.
>> >> Please let me know if any changes need improvements and I'll adjust
>> >> accordingly.
>> >
>> > Thanks.  See below.
>> [...]
>> >>    A string is a fixed sequence of characters.  It is a type of
>> >> -sequence called a @dfn{array}, meaning that its length is fixed and
>> >> +sequence called an @dfn{array}, meaning that its length is fixed and
>> >
>> > The "an" here is correct, since in a manual one sees "an array", which
>> > is correct English.  So I didn't install this part.
>>
>> You misread the patch, it changes "a" to "an", which makes the text
>> correct English.
>
> Oops.
>
>> I thought I'd save you some work by installing the patch myself,
>> which I just did, but unfortunately to master instead of emacs-29
>> (and also forgot to add the bug number).  Should I revert it and
>> install to the release branch?  Sorry for the trouble.
>
> You could have simply cherry-picked it to emacs-29.

Is it possible to do that with VC?  I didn't find the term in the source
code, only in admin/notes/git-workflow, which only shows the git command
(and says to "add 'Backport:' to the commit string", which is another
attention block I could well stumble over...).

Steve Berman

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