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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What does it mean?
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:20:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p13ai6oo3b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KwS9f-000772-UU@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:53:27 -0400")

"Richard M. Stallman" wrote:

> I saw this doc string go by in the diff log
>
> +  "Face used for variables or faces comment tags."
>
> and realized it is not grammatical and I cannot parse it.
> Does anyone know what that face is actually used for?

I presume you mean the doc of the custom-comment-tag face.

emacs -Q
M-x customize-variable abbrev-mode  ; pick any variable or face

From the "State" menu, choose "Add comment".

A "Comment:" tag is inserted, with custom-comment-tag face.
The associated entry field uses custom-comment face.

So bascially there are some missing apostrophes, ie

"Face used for variables' or faces' comment tags."

A better doc string might be

"Face used for the comment tag on variables or faces."




      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-05  3:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-02  1:53 What does it mean? Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-05  3:20 ` Glenn Morris [this message]

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