From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Cc: 47416@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents'
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 08:57:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a6qpp2aa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6e18737dc9f40353383@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Fri, 26 Mar 2021 20:27:14 +0000)
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 20:27:14 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: 47416@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> What about replacing "which see" with "quod vide"? It's not longer (eight
> letters and one space), and is easier to look up than both "which see" and
> "q.v.".
ISTR that past discussions concluded that q.v. would be even more
cryptic. With "which see", at least native English speakers and those
who are used to scientific literature would immediately understand
what it means.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-27 5:57 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
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 [this message]
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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