From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification) Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 19:58:27 +0200 Message-ID: <871t421e7w.fsf@gmx.net> References: <87h9czoh5v.fsf@gmx.net> <83d1nnhfmu.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1nnofd2.fsf@gmx.net> <83bn37h6o0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465754368 27604 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2016 17:59:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 17:59:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23746@debbugs.gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 12 19:59:17 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bC9fE-0000M4-QK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 12 Jun 2016 17:59:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23746) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Jun 2016 17:58:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38236 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bC9et-0001Ph-6t for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:55761) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bC9er-0001PT-AW for 23746@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rosalinde ([89.245.69.202]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0ML7NR-1bBsfc3745-000ISO; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 19:58:29 +0200 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:ZgfK6K7FNw7uh1uErO+6B/SPOKrz/eqXSYMmZ3n1htRVjumHmS9 y9YsXE7KVOs2TbMarn0dMCpV3l5e6Ipcd3ehvjlJ44Hs3gNrAPl7XgFbxdhRi83+p0qXch+ lzwst2Ijda2x3WYe4cEWW7peFRaOyepfHvg4hKzuoxMVUkY3LijOChdBiMhj8Qi4OBvW30H Pm8+Ozd4pMKgW+kLGNitA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:IwRSR+ok3/E=:nh7com7e615H23BsiA2w1k dhUm6CxkLtlLJJRySb989ETJgzTK6UTkUS2FwhuAtM/Gne9GqR6ipEZUoSQeQNCEIlPYdps7b 5h+hYXyCo0VAjENO7olYSbbCF0sOzs31CA6vKB3ZhXZ/PJUHXbVyr6CZSIoHTQyqitwTnVwpk cuEDiCQzvHjsX/95qZI54u15KRBCzpUbnrYn5m8+PVl62sgwu6VvwppCmjKVXR/IIk1oS4d1+ ty6C1BjHr7FKFGoK2H4pcsMA7F2AGin0lGqbB4EsDurGxgAwMq5jqsWPh28Fl/e9y+1SROYne p1FFTiX2nkp7ShwwcmlI6bYV/pxbRHj22cKRQBDBn4Zajrfk7LHfq2XN1L0V5Neyg7ZjrD7za 8iyBAQQTB1PrYuRz2uSH05nQEsiQW72TqgJFMF9y+2EoI6vN8yhBmPNS8eqO12COZ9cAnYYAf Pee5d8Bj0TOrjbz2WwI1USK1qCERD953n5XN5O/bd2bf1A70CSztZbB7WDCR7yxTOR+1Y2ztF xvBV8TDz5k87Z3RnPmy5sUtVYrlQSFR0jc04kh5MxXE4LUqa5J8jkbB0zarLQv9Zof+7TDNFI IapJ2UBXEZsuNjD0BljZMBmGawQT5jaMMYhQ3KpEexjRVqyq9AaD2OJUUtd68zpGEK/mpI975 swKk7mS1eUYwZjuz149ubioR7wm0cd325UFd3g+vCeQPNHwIrBens0RBlE8vbsK6BBfHo1NNH YzoS4kKuhZC16HMfcuXkq4BimQ37RZNZnbD1HWu4nAsekIQsPdUXdSu/QSvvb2jN4UE+QwtJ X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:119459 Archived-At: On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 16:21:19 -0400 Noam Postavsky wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> > >>> > This goes against the rest of the changes, which correctly made the >>> > opposite replacement. I see no reason to make the opposite change >>> > here. >>> >>> I don't understand what you mean; the changes in that hunk are strictly >>> grammatical corrections (underlined). >> >> Yes. They are just backwards: "may wish telling" => "may wish to tell". >> > > As a native English speaker, "your Lisp program may wish telling the > process" sounds obviously incorrect (though I'm not sure how to > explain why in terms of grammatical rules). Whereas, "your Lisp > program may wish to tell the process" is correct. That's one argument for this change; another is the statistical one based on the existing Emacs documentation: steve@rosalinde:/data/steve/git/emacs> grep -r " wish to " doc/ | wc -l 196 steve@rosalinde:/data/steve/git/emacs> grep -r " wish [a-z]*ing " doc/ doc/lispref/processes.texi:may wish telling the process the dimensions Eli, does this persuade you to accept this change too? Steve Berman