From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#6877: Documentation: "till" vs "until" in docstrings
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:34:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1PQM1p-0003ht-ML@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4nma0aa.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:07:57 -0500)
> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:07:57 -0500
>
> EZ> Quite a few of them could become longer than one line if "till" is
> EZ> replaced by "until". (They are already too long, IMO.) Emacs coding
> EZ> guidelines mandate that the short description fit on a single line.
>
> I think that can be resolved by judicious editing. Generally we should
> not contort the language to save a character; let's fix the long lines
> instead of using "till." I count 228 ocurrences in the Emacs source (67
> in the source according to `ack') and will fix them[1] if you agree.
Given editing that is "judicious" enough, I certainly agree ;-)
TIA
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-18 4:10 bug#6877: Documentation: "till" vs "until" in docstrings MON KEY
2010-08-18 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-06 22:29 ` Glenn Morris
[not found] ` <mailman.6.1282147749.8142.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-08-19 19:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-08 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] <mailman.25.1282106341.28080.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-08-18 13:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-08 15:54 ` Drew Adams
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