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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Takesi Ayanokoji <ayanokoji.takesi@gmail.com>
Cc: 31529@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31529: Sentence order in dired.texi(emacs-26)
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:25:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878t7q2n88.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN7WbibQ59k3YDGUShAJDa+eEuaE7sJ699bRhL=SD_XtNb6y-g@mail.gmail.com> (Takesi Ayanokoji's message of "Sun, 20 May 2018 01:47:59 +0900")

On 19 May 2018 at 12:47, Takesi Ayanokoji <ayanokoji.takesi@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the sentence
>
> Even if you have set @code{dired-recursive-deletes} to
> @code{nil}, you might want sometimes to delete recursively directories
> without being asked for confirmation for all of them.
>
> and the sentence
>
> This is handy
> when you have marked many directories for deletion and you are very
> sure that all of them can safely be deleted.
>
> is reverse order.

I don't think they're reversed, "this is handy" refers to the previous
sentence "delete [...] without being asked [...] for all of them".
Maybe it would be clearer if the second sentence said "For example"
instead of "This is handy".

Also, I'd say the word "recursively" *is* reversed with one of the words
around it, it should be either "recursively delete directories" or
"delete directories recursively".





  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-07 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-19 16:47 bug#31529: Sentence order in dired.texi(emacs-26) Takesi Ayanokoji
2018-06-07 23:25 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-06-09  8:59   ` Eli Zaretskii

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