From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:55:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87eeyj8nqr.fsf@gnus.org> References: <14407.1572888070@quatro> <8736f3js95.fsf@fastmail.fm> <871runxqjq.fsf@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="57886"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, Juanma Barranquero , stephen.berman@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 07 20:56:14 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iSnt7-000Eug-JF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:56:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47762 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iSnt6-0006y9-FJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:56:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42794) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iSnsz-0006wf-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:56:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iSnsy-0006Nc-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:56:05 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:57816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iSnsx-0006Ju-TL; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:56:04 -0500 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iSnsq-0004vz-Fz; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:55:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:32:49 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 80.91.231.51 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:241953 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > You may be right about that. But many of the people who read our > manual are not native speakers of English. The ambiguity may take > some work for them to figure out. You're right that it's better when things are better, but did you look at the concrete changes in this case? Typical example: > -This variable only applies to buffers where `buffer-file-name' is > +This variable applies only to buffers where `buffer-file-name' is I doubt anybody, non native speaker or not, would find the former ambiguous. The change is simply nonsensical pet peeving. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no