From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#42154: 26.3; [DOC] This wording is too complex: frame's window-system window. Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:47:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878sg3w6il.fsf@laposte.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24937"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 42154@debbugs.gnu.org To: Kevin Vigouroux Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 02 05:48:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqCo-0006Ns-Ah for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2020 05:48:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42526 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqCm-0004D8-PC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46306) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqCg-0004Ck-9R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42504) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqCg-00049d-1D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqCf-0007O2-TW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:48:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 03:48:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 42154 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 42154-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B42154.159366164228349 (code B ref 42154); Thu, 02 Jul 2020 03:48:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 42154) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Jul 2020 03:47:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54050 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqC2-0007NB-Iw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59928) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqC0-0007Mx-AA for 42154@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53398) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqBu-0003Ya-Fm; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqBt-00018E-EC; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:47:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878sg3w6il.fsf@laposte.net> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:182626 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > "If this is above, the **frame's window-system window** is displayed above One thing I notice is that this uses passive voice. That tends to be harder to read; also, it leaves the subject unstated, and that vagueness can hurt. (I don't know what that doc string text means.) -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)