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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-08-18 09:33:11 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-08-18 09:33:11 +0300 |
| commit | bc5fba7aae4beb56d983e057cfc968856ffe53ae (patch) | |
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; Minor copyedits in manuals.
* doc/lispref/variables.texi (Lexical Binding): The future is here.
* doc/emacs/files.texi (Copying and Naming): Use @w{..} around
constructs that could be split between lines, but shouldn't.
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/variables.texi b/doc/lispref/variables.texi index 7650ed4e3d8..50739e6b5f1 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/variables.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/variables.texi @@ -1017,11 +1017,11 @@ variables like @code{case-fold-search}: @subsection Lexical Binding Lexical binding was introduced to Emacs, as an optional feature, in -version 24.1. We expect its importance to increase in the future. +version 24.1. We expect its importance to increase with time. Lexical binding opens up many more opportunities for optimization, so programs using it are likely to run faster in future Emacs versions. -Lexical binding is also more compatible with concurrency, which we -want to add to Emacs in the future. +Lexical binding is also more compatible with concurrency, which was +added to Emacs in version 26.1. A lexically-bound variable has @dfn{lexical scope}, meaning that any reference to the variable must be located textually within the binding |