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From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: NEWS.22: `allows' without an object
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:17:10 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1HsmaU-0027M2C@rattlesnake.com> (raw)

In English, as heard by a native,

    *** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows to

in emacs/etc/NEWS.22 sounds wrong.  It would sound better if it were

    *** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows you to
                                                              ^^^
Also in that same file, in
    *** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file.
the line
    the end of the buffer in that window.  This allows to tail a file:
could be
    the end of the buffer in that window.  This allows you to tail a file:
                                                       ^^^
In
    *** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail.
the line
    This version of `movemail' allows to read mail from a wide range of
could be
    This version of `movemail' allows you to read mail from a wide range of
                                      ^^^

(I think I found all the infelicities involving `allow'.  There may be
others but I stopped because the file was too big.  Mostly, I just
looked at the outline, but even that was large, over 5000 lines.  You
may substitute `GNU Emacs' for `you'.)

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    Robert J. Chassell                          GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
    bob@rattlesnake.com                         bob@gnu.org
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             reply	other threads:[~2007-05-28 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-28 21:17 Robert J. Chassell [this message]
     [not found] ` <2cd46e7f0705281639m4e06b938sd0fbcc6d710812dc@mail.gmail.com>
2007-05-28 23:41   ` NEWS.22: `allows' without an object Ken Manheimer
2007-05-29  3:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-29  8:48   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-29  9:51     ` David Reitter
2007-05-29 19:27     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-29 10:33   ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-05-29 11:13     ` David Kastrup
2007-05-29 16:00       ` Ken Manheimer
2007-05-29  4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-29  8:20 ` Alan Mackenzie

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