* bug#67639: Description of the variable message-mail-user-agent in Emacs 29.1
@ 2023-12-04 23:27 rameiko87
2023-12-05 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: rameiko87 @ 2023-12-04 23:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 67639
I would appreciate clarifying this variable.
I have difficulties understanding what the variable
message-mail-user-agent means and what the options mean. The description
for this variable doesn't help:
> Like ‘mail-user-agent’.
I don't know what this sentence means.
> Except if it is nil, use Gnus native MUA; if it is t, use
> ‘mail-user-agent’.
Please remove Except from the beginning of the sentence, because
non-native English speakers like myself think that "Except if it is nil"
means "Whenever not nil". It may be correct, but it's confusing to some
people. Perhaps the confusion arises because there's a full stop rather
than a comma.
If the except links the sentence to the one above, then why write "if it
is t, use ‘mail-user-agent’ ", which is a repetition at this point? Now
it looks from the description like there should be two options, but
instead there's five.
I'm totally at loss!
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* bug#67639: Description of the variable message-mail-user-agent in Emacs 29.1
2023-12-04 23:27 bug#67639: Description of the variable message-mail-user-agent in Emacs 29.1 rameiko87
@ 2023-12-05 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2023-12-05 14:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rameiko87; +Cc: 67639
merge 67639 67638
close 67638
thanks
> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 23:27:37 +0000
> From: rameiko87@posteo.net
>
> I would appreciate clarifying this variable.
>
> I have difficulties understanding what the variable
> message-mail-user-agent means and what the options mean. The description
> for this variable doesn't help:
>
> > Like ‘mail-user-agent’.
> I don't know what this sentence means.
>
> > Except if it is nil, use Gnus native MUA; if it is t, use
> > ‘mail-user-agent’.
> Please remove Except from the beginning of the sentence, because
> non-native English speakers like myself think that "Except if it is nil"
> means "Whenever not nil". It may be correct, but it's confusing to some
> people. Perhaps the confusion arises because there's a full stop rather
> than a comma.
>
> If the except links the sentence to the one above, then why write "if it
> is t, use ‘mail-user-agent’ ", which is a repetition at this point? Now
> it looks from the description like there should be two options, but
> instead there's five.
>
> I'm totally at loss!
This is an exact duplicate of bug#67638, so I'm now closing both as
fixed.
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