GNU bug report logs - #8900
24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:25:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #36 received at 8900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 8900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8900: 24.0.50;
	please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:46:09 +0300

> Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:45:08 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 8900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> FWIW, I think you put the additional index entries in wrong places.
> The index entry should be near the text that describes the concept or
> the symbol, not merely mentions it.
> 
> For example, this:
> 
>   +@cindex @code{iso-latin-1}, coding system
>      These variant coding systems are omitted from the
>    @code{list-coding-systems} display for brevity, since they are entirely
>    predictable.  For example, the coding system @code{iso-latin-1} has
> 
> is wrong, because the text does not describe the iso-latin-1 encoding
> in any way.

I fixed that now.
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