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30.1; Unclear sentence in (emacs)Matching

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 78021-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78021: 30.1; Unclear sentence in (emacs)Matching
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:10:07 +0300

> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:42:49 +0000
> From:  Drew Adams via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> In (emacs)Matching (not a great name for the node abbreviation, BTW),
> this sentence is unclear:
> 
>   "Conversely, when you insert a closing delimiter over an existing one,
>    No insertion takes places, and that position is simply skipped over."
> 
> What does it mean to insert a closing delimiter "over an existing one"?
> No idea what this is trying to say, or why it's deemed the "converse" of
> what happens when you insert an opening delimiter.
> 
> Presumably it should include something about what happens to the
> "existing" closing delimiter, and something about point, if it hopes to
> convey the converse behavior.

Thanks, I've fixed the wording on the emacs-30 branch.

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