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bug#56261: [PATCH] maintaining.texi: typo


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#56261: [PATCH] maintaining.texi: typo
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:34:02 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> writes:

> i misread that "using" as if it had a "by" in front.  in the rendered
> texinfo (at least for me), that paragraph reads as:
>
>       Go forward to a place from where you previously went back using
>    ‘M-,’.  This is useful if you find that you went back too far.
>
> and there's no reference anywhere to xref-go-forward, so it's hard to
> infer that that sentence is referring to that command.

Yes, that seems to be phrased in a way that could easily be
misunderstood.  I've now rephrased it in Emacs 29.

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