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bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Nov 2023 12:16:13 +0200 |
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: rphodges@gmail.com, 67185@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 22:40:43 -0500
>
> > That manual uses "converse" and "conversely" about half a dozen times:
> > are all of them incorrect, and actually mean "opposite" or maybe "by
> > contrast"?
>
> I checked these, and I think they are correct. Each one is about reversing
> the direction of some relation, and "converse" means that/
>
> > The @code{kill-region} function definition also has an @code{unless}
> > macro; it is the converse of @code{when}.
>
> That should say "opposite". It's opposite because in the situation
> where `when' runs its body, `unless' does not run its body.
>
> The @code{unless} macro is
> > an @code{if} without a then clause
>
> The point is valid if understood in a figurative sense -- so the
> words need to indicate it is meant figuratively, not literally. How
> to do that? Maybe this:
>
> The @code{unless} macro is
> like an @code{if} except that it has no then-clause, and it supplies
> an implicit @code{nil} for that.
Thanks, I fixed these two places as you suggested, and I'm therefore
closing this bug.
- bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual, Ryan Hodges, 2023/11/14
- bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/11/15
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- bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/11/15
- bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual, Ryan Hodges, 2023/11/15
- bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual, Richard Stallman, 2023/11/16
- bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/11/17
- bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual, Ryan Hodges, 2023/11/17
- bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual, Richard Stallman, 2023/11/18
- bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual, Ryan Hodges, 2023/11/19
- bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual, Richard Stallman, 2023/11/20