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bug#37324: Small typo in Emacs manual (frame parameters)
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#37324: Small typo in Emacs manual (frame parameters) |
Date: |
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 05:35:10 +0300 |
> From: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>
> Cc: 37324@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 21:14:31 +0200
>
> >> I think there is one unnecessary "space".
> >
> > That's on purpose: the example tries to align this line with the
> > next.
>
> Ok, so I'm guessing that the number of spaces - in this example -
> before and after the dot is insignificant from perspective of the code
> (well, perhaps 1 is needed). But... is changing the insides of the
> code example just to align it to the next line is reasonable? If
> everywhere (I think) there is PARAMETER-ONE_SPACE-DOT-ONE_SPACE-VALUE
> perhaps it would be better to stick to that, because otherwise someone
> may think that there is an error in the code example.
I don't see anything unreasonable in that example. Whitespace is
insignificant in cons cells (and in many other places in Lisp).