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30.1; strange docstring for dired-do-touch

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From: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> potorti.it>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 77650 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eliz <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77650: 30.1; strange docstring for dired-do-touch
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:20:41 +0200

>> From: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> potorti.it>
>> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:28:18 +0200
>> 
>> This is the start of defun of dired-do-touch in dired-aux.el
>> 
>> (defun dired-do-touch (&optional arg)
>>   "Change the timestamp of the marked (or next ARG) files.
>> This calls touch.
>> Type Type \\<minibuffer-local-completion-map>\\[next-history-element] \
>> to pull the file attributes of the file at point
>> into the minibuffer."
>> 
>> The last three lines of the docstring make no sense to me because:
>> 
>> 1. "Type" is repeated twice
>
>That's a typo.
>
>> 2. when I call for description of "T" in a dired buffer, those lines show as:
>> 
>> Type Type M-n to pull the file attributes of the file at point
>> into the minibuffer.
>> 
>> But M-n calls clone-buffer
>
>The intent was to tell that you can type M-n after invoking the
>command.  IOW, type "T M-n".
>
>I've now fixed this (and several similar issues in a few other doc
>strings) on the emacs-30 branch, and I'm therefore closing this bug.

Thanks

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