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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: 59610@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59610: 29.0.50; Makefiles mentioned twice in `(emacs) Program Modes'
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 16:22:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o7stssmp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmm_HLBw16NJVys6jugfUeO8uaZmCYdS+VYGrbbvMbVv6Q@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 26 Nov 2022 05:55:11 -0800)

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 05:55:11 -0800
> 
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> This node (info "(emacs) Program Modes") mentions makefiles twice:
> 
>      Emacs has programming language modes for Lisp, Scheme, the
>   Scheme-based DSSSL expression language, Ada, ASM, AWK, C, C++, Fortran,
>   Icon, IDL (CORBA), IDLWAVE, Java, Javascript, M4, Makefiles, Metafont
>                                                     ^^^^^^^^^
>   (TeX’s companion for font creation), Modula2, Object Pascal,
>   Objective-C, Octave, Pascal, Perl, Pike, PostScript, Prolog, Python,
>   Ruby, Simula, SQL, Tcl, Verilog, and VHDL.  An alternative mode for Perl
>   is called CPerl mode.  Modes are also available for the scripting
>   languages of the common GNU and Unix shells, and MS-DOS/MS-Windows ‘BAT’
>   files, and for makefiles, DNS master files, and various sorts of
>                  ^^^^^^^^^
>   configuration files.
> 
> Is it redundant to mention it twice in the same paragraph?

Yes, the second one should be deleted.  Thanks.

> (BTW, I also note a difference in capitalization, but I don't know which
> is preferred.)

The first one.  The second one is most probably a historical accident.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-26 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-26 13:55 bug#59610: 29.0.50; Makefiles mentioned twice in `(emacs) Program Modes' Stefan Kangas
2022-11-26 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-11-26 14:57   ` Stefan Kangas

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