bug#78021: 30.1; Unclear sentence in (emacs)Matching

[Stephen Berman]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:31:22 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> CC: "eliz@gnu.org" <eliz@gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:51:31 +0000
>> 
>> I don't have Eli's fix, to compare, and I can't
>> follow your diff wrt the text I see in Emacs 30,
>> so I can't tell what, in your suggested text, you
>> think actually responds to _this_ bug, which I
>> filed.
>> 
>> This bug is only about this existing text, which
>> I can't fathom (and "places" should be "place"):
>> 
>>   "Conversely, when you insert a closing delimiter
>>    over an existing one, no insertion takes places,
>>    and that position is simply skipped over."
>> 
>> (And the node-name abbreviation shouldn't just be
>> "Matching".  There are lots of kinds of matching
>> in Emacs; please don't hijack that term for this.)
>> 
>> If you fix this bug, then fine.  But please make
>> your other changes independently of this bug fix.
>> Or at least make very clear what part of your fix
>> actually corresponds to fixing this bug.  Thx.
>
> The original bug was already fixed.  Stephen reopened it, but the
> changes he suggests to install have nothing to do with the original
> report.

I respectfully disagree, and in my first reply to Drew tried to explain
why I felt it was legitimate to add to this bug.  But if you want a new
bug report for my proposed changes, then I'll make one and close this
one again.

Steve Berman