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Missing hyperlink

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#71220: closed (Re: bug#71220: Missing hyperlink)
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 12:42:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#71220: Missing hyperlink

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 71220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 71220-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#71220: Missing hyperlink
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 15:40:40 +0300

> Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 22:43:40 +0800
> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
> Cc: 71220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 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.

OK, I added some stuff from "Fix Case" to "case", and I'm therefore
closing this bug.

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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Missing hyperlink
Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 16:17:00 +0800

(info "(emacs) Fixing Case") contains a hyperlink to
(info "(emacs) Case") but the latter is missing a vital hyperlink to the former!!
I'm saying if we are reading the latter, we would feel sad if we found out one day we didn't know about the former.

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