From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy' Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:54:26 +0100 Message-ID: <87h9xh3qn1.fsf@gmx.de> References: <871tom5jou.fsf@gmx.de> <83bnnqb1lo.fsf@gnu.org> <20141129140856.GA3752@acm.acm> <83a93aax58.fsf@gnu.org> <20141129153320.GC3752@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417344907 18656 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2014 10:55:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 10:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 30 11:55:00 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv29b-0000eg-9x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:54:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50105 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv29a-0000T1-Vc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 05:54:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv29K-0000St-9D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 05:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv29E-0001sZ-HH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 05:54:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.18]:62842) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv297-0001qw-Tq; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 05:54:30 -0500 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([93.209.66.135]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LjIit-1YSijs1uiF-00dahS; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:54:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20141129153320.GC3752@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 29 Nov 2014 15:33:20 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:bEnqPuQuWBG8502OenRAQvsJjq0+ENkcpLucWd29BSxw7ZdCa4+ 00HnKN91B3It+AUUZnHXPTUGStaTEigkEo88Vn/Gn4p1IXF3c5kP5bvIPjZ4/b4jWP2IwUO kfX/3dx237CbUV64kTjhr6mgb4HDFAZj4/m3dtptEgUT6hdbFbrZLhIcgkGdvU0c7rgMJu/ HzVJEogWe9mB6zB33cgHw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.18 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178502 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie 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.