From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: Re: Success using Windows NT] Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:47:28 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200206141547.g5EFlSk08900@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <200206111926.g5BJQIh03709@aztec.santafe.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024069782 8404 127.0.0.1 (14 Jun 2002 15:49:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:49:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17ItKY-0002BP-00 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 17:49:42 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17ItjO-0007dP-00 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:15:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17ItKO-0002tH-00; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:49:32 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17ItIQ-0002WY-00; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:47:30 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5EFlSQ10873; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:47:28 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g5EFlSk08900; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:47:28 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: jasonr@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (message from Jason Rumney on 13 Jun 2002 00:40:11 +0100) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4862 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4862 The text is basically clear. Sometimes it uses the future tense and passive voice when it ought to stick to the active present: + On MS-Windows, if LANG is not already set in the environment when + Emacs starts, it will be set by Emacs based on the system-wide default It is clearer to say, + On MS-Windows, if LANG is not already set in the environment when + Emacs starts, Emacs sets it based on the system-wide default Could you go through and make such changes wherever they are appropriate? Aside from that, there are many errors in Texinfo usage. For instance, LANG being an envvar, it should be written in @env. Could you reread the part of the Texinfo manual that discusses these commands, then go through and make corrections? + Windows. While running @code{addpm.exe} is no longer strictly + neccesary in recent versions of Emacs, if you are upgrading from an That's a spelling error; it should be "necessary". Finally, if the + values are still not determined, the compiled in defaults are used. You need to write "compiled-in" for clarity. (This is also a good place to replace the passive voice with active.) Thanks for working on this; with a little more work, as described above, it will do the job just fine.