From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Scan of regexps in Emacs (March 17)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:38:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d0mk6go5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <deeccd91-0f43-c329-6087-17435550b328@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:10:39 -0700)
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:10:39 -0700
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> As the Emacs documentation currently has thousands of occurrences of
> "should", it sounds like we don't generally follow the guideline you're
> suggesting.
Indeed. And the reason is likely that our documentation is not
"technical documentation" in the sense meant in that article.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-21 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-17 13:50 Scan of regexps in Emacs (March 17) Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-19 1:21 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-19 10:34 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-20 1:53 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-20 2:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-20 22:01 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-20 22:59 ` Drew Adams
2019-03-20 23:10 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-21 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <<deeccd91-0f43-c329-6087-17435550b328@cs.ucla.edu>
[not found] ` <<83d0mk6go5.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-03-21 4:21 ` Drew Adams
2019-03-21 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 0:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-21 11:15 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-04-02 7:33 ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-02 14:15 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-04-02 14:26 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-02 19:13 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-04-02 16:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-02 22:08 ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-03 4:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-03 17:02 ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-06 9:43 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-04-07 8:15 ` Michael Albinus
2019-04-07 9:47 ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-07 10:06 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-04-07 18:45 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-21 2:07 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-22 13:26 ` Stephen Leake
2019-03-22 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-22 14:12 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-20 10:04 ` Mattias Engdegård
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