From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-other-frames Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:32:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <57BC072F.9070704@gmx.at> <83k2f7fugv.fsf@gnu.org> <57BD63A9.8040502@gmx.at> <57BEB772.60100@gmx.at> <83inuoewjy.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1472261595 23624 195.159.176.226 (27 Aug 2016 01:33:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 01:33:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 27 03:33:12 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bdSUf-0005Wx-9E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 03:33:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34363 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bdSUc-0006gV-Ip for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:33:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57221) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bdSUW-0006Y1-Tc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:33:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bdSUV-0007LC-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:32:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58843) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bdSUV-0007Kx-4U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:32:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bdSUT-00059T-8W; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:32:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <83inuoewjy.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 17:46:09 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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:206823 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > For the future, please adopt the following style: > This function deletes the specified @var{frame}. > rather than using this: > This function deletes the frame @var{frame}. The latter is the grammatically correct way. A parameter name in italics, such as "@var{frame}", acts as a _name_ that refers to the actual value of the argument. Just as we would write Send it to my assistant, Jeanne. we should write, delete the frame, @var{f}. or delete the frame, @var{frame}. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.