From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Breton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: locate-with-filter Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:30:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20060313113008.11143.qmail@web33101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142360056 11254 80.91.229.2 (14 Mar 2006 18:14:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:14:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pbreton@cs.umb.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 14 19:14:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJDvQ-0000kV-9v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:07:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJDvP-0002WP-QP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:07:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FIlFf-000159-Cr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:30:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FIlFa-000124-Sf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:30:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FIlFa-00011q-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:30:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [68.142.206.82] (helo=web33101.mail.mud.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FIlJX-0008G6-Uz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:34:16 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 11145 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Mar 2006 11:30:08 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=iNCS2kzn9Kul7lwSgMozr1w6flLX1JIH61Bxc1McKAFFJhgu7RK3W117m1HONj017dP+HpalkX6Nn9Ga2OvVeMDEitQBltnJba4uKwMJbAHvQamsuBckJUItGXV/HKTmyPdiMZqJPUbcidNcxiT2WknS3YBG7XIzl9wYLQFP9IA= ; Original-Received: from [66.30.200.67] by web33101.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:30:08 PST Original-To: Eli Zaretskii , Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:15:50 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51613 Archived-At: I agree with Eli on this one. I did like all Luc's other changes tho. Peter > > Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:18:05 -0600 (CST) > > From: Luc Teirlinck > > Cc: pbreton@cs.umb.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > ;;;###autoload > > (defun locate (search-string &optional filter) > > ! "Run the program `locate', putting results in > `*Locate*' buffer. > > With prefix arg, prompt for the locate command > to run." > > (interactive > > (list > > --- 190,196 ---- > > > > ;;;###autoload > > (defun locate (search-string &optional filter) > > ! "Run the locate program, putting results in > `*Locate*' buffer. > > With prefix arg, prompt for the locate command > to run." > > This change is for the worse, IMHO. The original > doc string makes it > clear that `locate' is a program, whereas the new > strings could be > misunderstood to talk about some mysterious ``locate > program'' (as in > ``relocation program''). > > There are more instances of using ``the locate > program'' in your > changes; I think they all need to be modified in the > same way to make > sure the meaning is clear. >