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bug#44929: 28.0.50; Info-next-reference skips next reference


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#44929: 28.0.50; Info-next-reference skips next reference
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 22:22:29 +0200

> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:10:57 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 44929-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> How about improving `C-h k RET' here, to let
> users know that?  Neither the command name
> nor the doc string really suggests that.  IOW,
> can we please elaborate about "near point"?
> 
> What's more, though some of the doc string says
> "near point", other parts say "on".
> 
>  "If point is on a reference..."
>  "If point is in a menu item..."
> 
> And this mistakenly says that "point" is "on",
> or "in" something, whereas point is a position,
> not something that is at, on, or in something
> else.  It's the other way around: something is
> _at_ a position (such as point).

Pedant.





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