From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Tim Lee <progscriptclone@gmail.com>
Cc: 47416@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents'
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:34:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6e18737dcd84f2d4781@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210326181250.ykkaiotkb4mgmbmo@home-guest>
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>
> The last paragraph/sentence in the documentation of
> 'insert-file-contents' is:
>
>> 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?
>
> The sentence was introduced by commit bb085aed9593 (2012-12-21).
>
See the Emacs manual Glossary: q.v. Short for "quod vide" in Latin, which
means "which see". There are about 400 occurrences of "which see" in the
Emacs documentation, it means "look at the documentation of the previous
word/function to find more information".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-26 18:34 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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