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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 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net
Subject: bug#78021: 30.1; Unclear sentence in (emacs)Matching
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:31:22 +0300

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> CC: "eliz <at> gnu.org" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:51:31 +0000
> 
> I don't have Eli's fix, to compare, and I can't
> follow your diff wrt the text I see in Emacs 30,
> so I can't tell what, in your suggested text, you
> think actually responds to _this_ bug, which I
> filed.
> 
> This bug is only about this existing text, which
> I can't fathom (and "places" should be "place"):
> 
>   "Conversely, when you insert a closing delimiter
>    over an existing one, no insertion takes places,
>    and that position is simply skipped over."
> 
> (And the node-name abbreviation shouldn't just be
> "Matching".  There are lots of kinds of matching
> in Emacs; please don't hijack that term for this.)
> 
> If you fix this bug, then fine.  But please make
> your other changes independently of this bug fix.
> Or at least make very clear what part of your fix
> actually corresponds to fixing this bug.  Thx.

The original bug was already fixed.  Stephen reopened it, but the
changes he suggests to install have nothing to do with the original
report.

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