From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, lekktu@gmail.com,
stephen.berman@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 22:31:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1iTHT2-000247-7H@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeyj8nqr.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:55:56 +0100)
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> > -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.
Maybe you are right. I was talking about the general point, not
this specific case.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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[not found] <20191104023801.20244.67873@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20191104023803.36ABA20A3C@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-11-04 12:51 ` master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-04 17:21 ` Stephen Gildea
2019-11-04 20:33 ` Joost Kremers
2019-11-04 21:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-04 21:47 ` Stephen Berman
2019-11-04 22:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-06 3:28 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-07 10:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-07 19:32 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-07 19:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-08 3:35 ` Paul Eggert
2019-11-08 4:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-08 21:31 ` Paul Eggert
2019-11-08 21:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-08 4:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-09 3:31 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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