From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 11f44ec6dda: Enable DND handlers to receive more than one URI at a time
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 13:49:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E4DC98E6-0061-4902-A487-14416F7ACE14@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0lfou53.fsf@igel.home>
28 okt. 2023 kl. 13.37 skrev Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>:
>> "Absent" has been a perfect synonym to the preposition of "without"
>> since the mid-20th century.
>
> A manual should not use colloquial language, it needs to be understood
> by non-native English speakers.
Actually 'absent' as a preposition is rather formal than colloquial, but I agree it doesn't do a lot of good to the text here; just go with 'without'.
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2023-10-26 13:12 ` master 11f44ec6dda: Enable DND handlers to receive more than one URI at a time Visuwesh
2023-10-26 13:44 ` Po Lu
2023-10-26 14:45 ` Visuwesh
2023-10-27 1:01 ` Po Lu
2023-10-28 11:20 ` Visuwesh
2023-10-28 11:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-10-28 11:49 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
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