* bug#38077: Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity'
@ 2019-11-05 23:01 Cecilio Pardo
2019-11-06 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-07 4:39 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Cecilio Pardo @ 2019-11-05 23:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 38077
Severity: documentation
Tags: patch
The info documentation fo ls-lisp-verbosity states that the value
contains 'one or more of the symbols', while the docstring says 'none or
more'. The empty list works ok, so it should be 'none'.
diff --git a/doc/emacs/msdos.texi b/doc/emacs/msdos.texi
index 55093a080a..920af2cbf5 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/msdos.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/msdos.texi
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ ls in Lisp
@vindex ls-lisp-verbosity
The variable @code{ls-lisp-verbosity} controls the file attributes
that @file{ls-lisp.el} displays. The value should be a list that
-contains one or more of the symbols @code{links}, @code{uid}, and
+contains none or more of the symbols @code{links}, @code{uid}, and
@code{gid}. @code{links} means display the count of different file
names that are associated with (a.k.a.@: @dfn{links to}) the file's
data; this is only useful on NTFS volumes. @code{uid} means display
--
Cecilio Pardo
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* bug#38077: Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity'
2019-11-05 23:01 bug#38077: Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity' Cecilio Pardo
@ 2019-11-06 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-07 4:39 ` Richard Stallman
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2019-11-06 17:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cecilio Pardo; +Cc: 38077-done
> From: Cecilio Pardo <cpardo@imayhem.com>
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:01:05 +0100
>
> The info documentation fo ls-lisp-verbosity states that the value
> contains 'one or more of the symbols', while the docstring says 'none or
> more'. The empty list works ok, so it should be 'none'.
Thanks. "None or more" sounds awkward, so I fixed this a bit
differently.
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* bug#38077: Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity'
2019-11-05 23:01 bug#38077: Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity' Cecilio Pardo
2019-11-06 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2019-11-07 4:39 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-07 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2019-11-07 4:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cecilio Pardo; +Cc: 38077
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"None or more" sounds very strange in English. It is better to say
"zero or more".
"A list of zero or more of the following symbols:"
--
Dr Richard Stallman
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* bug#38077: Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity'
2019-11-07 4:39 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2019-11-07 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2019-11-07 14:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rms; +Cc: cpardo, 38077
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 23:39:43 -0500
> Cc: 38077@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> "None or more" sounds very strange in English. It is better to say
> "zero or more".
>
> "A list of zero or more of the following symbols:"
Yes, but I preferred to say "nil" instead of "list of zero symbols".
This is a user manual, not an ELisp manual, so we shouldn't assume
every reader knows they are equivalent.
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