From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Behaviour of add-file-local-variable?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:01:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5wfmcvt.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvty73hkof.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:13:57 -0400")
On 20 Oct 2011, Stefan Monnier stated:
> I think that add-file-local-variable could simply check if the
> variable's value is already the new one and if not output a message
> along the lines "Done; revisit the file to make it take effect" (tho
> "take effect" doesn't sound right: please native speakers fix it for
> me).
Your instincts mislead you: it's right. Perhaps a more explicit "Revisit
file to make this change take effect" would be better? (But that's
style, not grammar.)
--
NULL && (void)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-21 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-19 8:57 Behaviour of add-file-local-variable? Jambunathan K
2011-10-19 9:39 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-20 4:21 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-20 13:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-21 0:01 ` Nix [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87y5wfmcvt.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix \
--to=nix@esperi.org.uk \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=juri@jurta.org \
--cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).