From: Philipp <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Tim Lee <progscriptclone@gmail.com>
Cc: 47416@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents'
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:32:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <416A2299-0AC6-45D2-B904-99F12F60C4FC@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210326181250.ykkaiotkb4mgmbmo@home-guest>
> Am 26.03.2021 um 19:12 schrieb Tim Lee <progscriptclone@gmail.com>:
>
> The last paragraph/sentence in the documentation of 'insert-file-contents' is:
>
>> In addition, this function decodes the inserted text from known formats
>> by calling `format-decode', which see.
>
> It looks like there is something wrong about this sentence.
>
> "... which see." — See what?
Apparently this is correct English. "... X, which see" means roughly "To find out more, look up X."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-26 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-26 18:12 bug#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents' Tim Lee
2021-03-26 18:32 ` Philipp [this message]
2021-03-26 18:34 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-03-26 18:42 ` Glenn Morris
2021-03-26 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-26 20:27 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-03-27 5:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-27 7:09 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-03-27 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-27 18:31 ` Richard Stallman
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