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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 29d1c72: Introduce new value t for compilation-context-lines to eliminate scrolling
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:07:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy2zel6fk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y2zecrt1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:49:14 +0300")

>> +(defvar compilation-dummy-string ">"
>> +  "A string which is only a placeholder for compilation-margin-string.
>> +It's actual value is never used, but must be one character long.")
>    ^^^^
> "Its".
>
> Btw, it is customary to use just " " for such purposes.

Funnily enough I thought you were talking not about the ">" string but
about the "It[']s" so I was surprised you said " " instead of "" since
indeed you could write it as just:

    Actual value is never used, but must be one character long.

and I was wondering why you'd want to use a leading space in
that sentence ;-O


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-27 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20190825102323.5080620CD5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-08-25 18:39   ` [Emacs-diffs] master 29d1c72: Introduce new value t for compilation-context-lines to eliminate scrolling Stefan Monnier
2019-08-25 19:06     ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-25 19:37       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-26 16:26         ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-26 16:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-27 20:05             ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-29 18:22               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-31 10:53                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-31 11:06                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-02 19:34                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-09-03  2:25                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-08  9:41                     ` Margins example in the Elisp manual. [Was: [Emacs-diffs] master 29d1c72: Introduce new value t for compilation-context-lines to eliminate scrolling] Alan Mackenzie
2019-09-08 17:06                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-27 19:36         ` [Emacs-diffs] master 29d1c72: Introduce new value t for compilation-context-lines to eliminate scrolling Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-27 19:49           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-27 20:07             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-08-27 19:59           ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-31 11:31             ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-31 12:07               ` martin rudalics
2019-08-31 12:45                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-25 20:54       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-27 19:46         ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-27 20:05           ` Stefan Monnier

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