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Missing hyperlink

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Message #17 received at 71220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 71220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#71220: Missing hyperlink
Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 22:43:40 +0800

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 04:59:10PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The text in "Fixing Case", all of it, is this:
> 
>   ‘M-- M-l’
>        Convert last word to lower case.  Note ‘Meta--’ is Meta-minus.
>   ‘M-- M-u’
>        Convert last word to all upper case.
>   ‘M-- M-c’
>        Convert last word to lower case with capital initial.
> 
> What does this say that "Case", and in particular the paragraph you
> quote above, does not?  I'd rather add whatever is missing to "Case"
> than send the reader to another place in the manual.

One gets to see three commands, each with its own two lines. That
leaves a lasting impression, instead of requiring the user to need to
analyze the sentence and come up with them in their head.

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