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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
Cc: 20011@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20011: etc/PROBLEMS: updates, wording, typos
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:23:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838ue7oaeu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fv8ftzlo.fsf@violet.siamics.net>

> From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
> Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:20:19 +0000
> 
>  >>> There's nothing wrong with using "that" in these contexts,
> 
>  >> AIUI, there’s nothing wrong with using “which” there, either.
> 
>  > Indeed, there isn't.  But making such changes in a single document on
>  > top of that, leaving all the other uses intact, hardly makes sense.
>  > It could make sense if we agreed not to use "that" in these cases,
>  > and then changed that all over and wrote somewhere in the docs that
>  > this is our style.  But not in a single file.
> 
> 	I’ve mostly dropped these changes, or (in three cases) reworded
> 	to avoid either.
> 
>  >>> replaces a recipe with an entirely different one.  Why not keep
>  >>> both?
> 
>  >> The former recipe seems to predate the introduction of
>  >> visible-cursor.  I see no reason to keep it now that there’s an easy
>  >> way to solve the issue without having to modify terminfo or restart
>  >> Emacs, etc.  I presume that the more experienced users will be able
>  >> to gather all what necessary for a terminfo-based solution from the
>  >> “use software cursor” recipe just above the one at hand.
> 
>  > I don't know enough about this to judge, so I will defer to others.
>  > (I generally prefer to keep existing knowledge intact, even if it's
>  > old, as long as it's correct; but that's me.)
> 
> 	Done.
> 
> 	Please consider the revised patch MIMEd.

Looks good to me, thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-04 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-05 21:49 bug#20011: etc/PROBLEMS: updates, wording, typos Ivan Shmakov
2015-03-06  8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-06  9:10   ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-03-06 10:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-04 20:20       ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-04-04 21:23         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-04-07 17:47           ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-03-06 16:58     ` Glenn Morris
2015-04-04 20:25       ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-04-05  9:10         ` Richard Stallman

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