Re: master 1d4862e: Fix English grammar in some doc strings and comments

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

On 11/7/19 8:24 PM, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
>> -This function only handles buffers that are visiting files.
>> +This function handles only buffers that are visiting files.

> there's no additional clarity. It could also be argued that, in those cases
> where the result is less natural-sounding it diminishes clarity,

I'm not aware of any such cases. To my ear, the revised text in the example you 
gave is just as natural-sounding as the original. I agree that we shouldn't be 
pedantic about "only" in places where that would reduce clarity.

I'm willing to put up with these less-important changes, if consistent use of 
the style helps to fix confusion elsewhere (as that patch did). It's akin to 
preferring signed to unsigned arithmetic in C code - even in places where this 
makes no real difference - because being reasonably consistent about preferring 
signed arithmetic helps makes Emacs more reliable overall.