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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: kupfer@rawbw.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-30 baaf97ce1a1: ; Fix some ungrammatical uses of "allows to"
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 09:54:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8634mldvx5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87plpp8bgg.fsf@zephyr.silentflame.com> (message from Sean Whitton on Sat, 31 Aug 2024 07:15:27 +0100)

> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 07:15:27 +0100
> 
> On Fri 30 Aug 2024 at 04:39pm -07, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> 
> > I'll take a stab at it.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> "allows for Xing" reads less well than "allows Xing" to me, but perhaps
> Eli will disagree.

See my other suggestions: I think the rewording should be more
radical.  E.g., in this case:

  lisp/tab-bar.el:

    A button in the window allows for the restoration of the killed
    buffer.

I'd use something like

   Pressing a button in the window restores the killed buffer.
or
   You can press a button in the window to restore the killed buffer.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-31  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-30 17:40 emacs-30 baaf97ce1a1: ; Fix some ungrammatical uses of "allows to" Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-30 18:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-08-30 19:00   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-30 21:09     ` Sean Whitton
2024-08-30 19:03   ` Sean Whitton
2024-08-30 19:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-30 21:07       ` Sean Whitton
2024-08-30 23:22       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-08-31  0:23     ` Po Lu
2024-08-31  6:26       ` Sean Whitton
2024-08-31  6:49         ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-08-30 19:00 ` Sean Whitton
2024-08-30 19:18   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-30 21:00     ` Sean Whitton
2024-08-30 21:15       ` Ship Mints
2024-08-30 23:39       ` Mike Kupfer
2024-08-31  6:15         ` Sean Whitton
2024-08-31  6:54           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-08-31 14:54             ` Mike Kupfer
2024-08-31  6:44       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-01 10:20         ` Sean Whitton
2024-09-01 10:37           ` Eli Zaretskii

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