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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy'
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:54:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9xh3qn1.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141129153320.GC3752@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 29 Nov 2014 15:33:20 +0000")

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Hi, Eli.

Hi Eli, Alan,

>> > >   REUSE-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS non-nil means return the name of an existing
>> > >   local copy of FILE, if FILE's file attributes didn't change since
>> >                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> > >   the last copy operation.
>
>> > "haven't changed", here, since it's expressing a current state.  "didn't
>> > change" would be appropriate for referring to a past event.
>
>> It _is_ a past event, by the time this function is called.
>
> Yes, but it is that event's effect on the present which makes the
> "present perfect" the right tense.
>
> "haven't changed" is the correct tense here.  Really it is.

Thanks for improving the docstring! I'm not a native speaker, so it is
always helpful for me.

Best regards, Michael.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-30 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-29 11:29 Optional argument for `file-local-copy' Michael Albinus
2014-11-29 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 14:08   ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-29 14:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 15:33       ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-29 16:24         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-11-30  5:22         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-30 11:04           ` Michael Albinus
2014-11-30 14:11             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-30 17:24               ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-02 14:18                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-02 14:53                   ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-02 20:55                     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-02 21:24                       ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-02 22:30                         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-09 13:32                           ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-10 14:15                             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-11  9:20                               ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-11 15:22                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 10:22                                   ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-14 13:46                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 14:24                                       ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-14 22:37                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-15  7:41                                           ` Michael Albinus
2014-11-30 10:54         ` Michael Albinus [this message]

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