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#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents' Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:31:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20210326181250.ykkaiotkb4mgmbmo@home-guest> 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="25452"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 47416@debbugs.gnu.org To: Tim Lee Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 27 19:32:43 2021 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 1lQDjl-0006UK-Sx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 19:32:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42116 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQDjk-0005GU-NM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:32:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQDj8-0005GB-9N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:33385) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQDj7-00044y-NF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lQDj7-0003VW-K9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:32:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:32:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 47416 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix X-Debbugs-Original-Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.161686990413459 (code B ref -1); Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:32:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Mar 2021 18:31:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44931 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lQDiq-0003V0-IF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:31:44 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:43606) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lQDip-0003Ut-2N for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:31:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46832) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQDio-0005CT-Bg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:31:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQDin-0003vr-RP; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:31:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lQDil-0008D5-Fv; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:31:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20210326181250.ykkaiotkb4mgmbmo@home-guest> (message from Tim Lee on Sat, 27 Mar 2021 02:12:50 +0800) 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:203133 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. ]]] > > 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. -- 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)