Re: master f9e354e: Spelling and wording fixes

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

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Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> semantically your phrasing seems quite awkward to me

True.  Let's omit that sentence.  First, the point doesn't appear to be that 
important.  Second, it's typically more confusing to document a procedure 
*doesn't* do than to document what the procedure *does* do.  So I installed the 
attached.  Undoubtedly this could be further improved.

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From 94a90c867853f83d5f833dfd910919af9209c71b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:55:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/net/browse-url.el: Omit confusing documentation.

---
 lisp/net/browse-url.el | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/net/browse-url.el b/lisp/net/browse-url.el
index dff587e..b44bb71 100644
--- a/lisp/net/browse-url.el
+++ b/lisp/net/browse-url.el
@@ -862,8 +862,7 @@ first, if that exists."
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun browse-url-at-point (&optional arg)
   "Ask a WWW browser to load the URL at or before point.
-Don't let you edit the URL like `browse-url'.  Variable
-`browse-url-browser-function' says which browser to use."
+Variable `browse-url-browser-function' says which browser to use."
   (interactive "P")
   (let ((url (browse-url-url-at-point)))
     (if url
@@ -876,9 +875,8 @@ Don't let you edit the URL like `browse-url'.  Variable
 (defun browse-url-at-mouse (event)
   "Ask a WWW browser to load a URL clicked with the mouse.
 The URL is the one around or before the position of the mouse click
-but point is not changed.  Don't let you edit the URL like
-`browse-url'.  Variable `browse-url-browser-function' says which browser
-to use."
+but point is not changed.  Variable `browse-url-browser-function'
+says which browser to use."
   (interactive "e")
   (save-excursion
     (mouse-set-point event)
-- 
2.1.0