From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:11:06 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Revert "Fix a typo in emacs-lisp-intro.texi" X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~181 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fde56eeb76;p=emacs.git Revert "Fix a typo in emacs-lisp-intro.texi" This reverts commit 98eb6d783a482cd7ebca7ec656b0775b82c68e57. I've consulted with Richard Stallman about this, and he says that the original wording, "kinds of atom", is both correct and more elegant writing. So I'm restoring the original text. * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (Lisp Atoms): Undo the fix of a "typo" that wasn't a typo. (Bug#51271) --- diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi index 3897e5a0627..6ecd552ebb0 100644 --- a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi +++ b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi @@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ are different from the meaning the letters make as a word. For example, the word for the South American sloth, the @samp{ai}, is completely different from the two words, @samp{a}, and @samp{i}. -There are many kinds of atoms in nature but only a few in Lisp: for +There are many kinds of atom in nature but only a few in Lisp: for example, @dfn{numbers}, such as 37, 511, or 1729, and @dfn{symbols}, such as @samp{+}, @samp{foo}, or @samp{forward-line}. The words we have listed in the examples above are all symbols. In everyday Lisp