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From: Masatake YAMATO <jet@gyve.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: doc string of `local-variable-if-set-p'
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:22:54 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041014.022254.179728295.jet@gyve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1oej6eeaq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

> Most likely, it's the new fontification that struck you.
> The original docstring is:
> 
>    Non-nil if VARIABLE will be local in buffer BUFFER if it is set there.
>    BUFFER defaults to the current buffer.
> 
> but recently the code tries to mangle it to use italics instead of allcaps
> for identifiers.  Most likely in your case the italics is lost somewhere.
> 
> Note also how even if the italics was kept the mangling has created an
> ugliness in the second sentence: it starts with a lowercase.

I am not talking about fontification nor upper/lower case.
I'm talking about English. 

(1) Non-nil if VARIABLE will be local in buffer BUFFER if it is set there.
    BUFFER defaults to the current buffer. 

I thought this should be

(2) Non-nil if VARIABLE will be local in buffer BUFFER *and* if it is set there.
    BUFFER defaults to the current buffer. 

or 

(3) Non-nil if VARIABLE will be local in buffer BUFFER and if VARIABLE is set in BUFFER.
    BUFFER defaults to the current buffer. 

If you think (1) is ok as English, please ignore me; and I'll go back
to an English class room in a junior high school.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-13 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-13 16:48 doc string of `local-variable-if-set-p' Masatake YAMATO
2004-10-13 17:13 ` Stefan
2004-10-13 17:22   ` Masatake YAMATO [this message]
2004-10-13 17:35     ` Stefan
2004-10-13 17:57       ` David Kastrup
2004-10-13 18:25         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-13 18:23       ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-15  0:26         ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-15  0:53           ` Miles Bader
2004-10-15  1:52           ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-15  2:12             ` Daniel Brockman
2004-10-15  2:40               ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-15  3:12                 ` Daniel Brockman
2004-10-15  4:12                   ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-15  5:01                     ` Daniel Brockman
2004-10-16  3:30                       ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-13 17:53     ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-13 22:24       ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-10-14  0:33         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-15  0:26   ` Richard Stallman

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