From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Tim Lee <progscriptclone@gmail.com>
Cc: 47416@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents'
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:31:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1lQDil-0008D5-Fv@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210326181250.ykkaiotkb4mgmbmo@home-guest> (message from Tim Lee on Sat, 27 Mar 2021 02:12:50 +0800)
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> > In addition, this function decodes the inserted text from known formats
> > by calling `format-decode', which see.
> It looks like there is something wrong about this sentence.
> "... which see." — See what?
See `format-decode'.
"which see" after some nominal says to go look at that nominal.
It is slightly old-fashioned usage but not obsolete.
There is no obstacle to stating that sentence some other way if that
is clearer.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-26 18:12 bug#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents' Tim Lee
2021-03-26 18:32 ` Philipp
2021-03-26 18:34 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-03-26 18:42 ` Glenn Morris
2021-03-26 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-26 20:27 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-03-27 5:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-27 7:09 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-03-27 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-27 18:31 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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