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24.3.50; (emacs) `File Registers' typo: ?R should be R

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.3.50; (emacs) `File Registers' typo: ?R should be R
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:27:15 -0800

In all of the register sections of the Emacs manual, this
convention is used:
 
 "Each register has a name that consists of a single character,
  which we will denote by R"  - (emacs) `Registers'
 
In `File Registers' there is this text:
 
 Here's the Lisp code used to put a file name in a register:
 
     (set-register ?R '(file . NAME))
 
 For example,
 
     (set-register ?z '(file . "/gd/gnu/emacs/19.0/src/ChangeLog"))
 
The part before the example is a mismash, a mix of
specification/template and literal example.  For it to serve as a
specification (template), `?R' needs to be corrected to `R'.
For extra clarity, the accompanying text can say, e.g.:
 
 "Here's the Lisp code used to put file NAME into register R:"
 
(FILE would be better than NAME, here, BTW.)
 
These changes will bring this node in line with the others of section
`Registers'.
 
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2013-01-25 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 111604 eliz <at> gnu.org-20130125143821-1ykj7ia1qjojjjnp
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
 -IC:/Devel/emacs/build/include --ldflags -LC:/Devel/emacs/build/lib'
 

Message #8 received at 13565 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 13565 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13565: 24.3.50; (emacs) `File Registers' typo: ?R should be R
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 05:05:15 -0800

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

>  "Here's the Lisp code used to put file NAME into register R:"

Fixed on trunk.

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