From: Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: bug#3661: English errors in help for whitespace-style
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090623170630.1797302320.qww314159@motoko.argon.local> (raw)
There are some English errors in the help for the whitespace-style
variable that render some of the text virtually unintelligible to a
native English speaker (or at least to this particular native English
speaker).
Original:
space-after-tab::space TABs are visualized when occurs 8 or
more SPACEs after a TAB via faces.
I would say
space-after-tab::space TABs are visualized using faces when 8 or
more SPACEs occur after a TAB.
Original:
space-before-tab::space TABs are visualized when occurs SPACEs
before TAB via faces.
I would say:
space-before-tab::space TABs are visualized using faces when
SPACEs occur before TAB.
At least I think that's what I would say based on what I think the
variable seems to do, though I can't really tell from the original
wording. (This is not a criticism of the author, whose English is much
better than my abilities in any non-English language!)
I would be willing to go through the documentation strings to help clean
up the English if it would help.
--
Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
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2009-08-16 14:55 ` bug#3661: marked as done (English errors in help for whitespace-style) Emacs bug Tracking System
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