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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Rudolf Adamkovič" <salutis@me.com>
Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistenciesfeature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistencies
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:20:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831qr2xy8s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wn8uttqa.fsf@me.com> (message from Rudolf Adamkovič on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:11:57 +0200)

> From: Rudolf Adamkovič <salutis@me.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:11:57 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > They [the changes] seem to be personal stylistic preferences, in which
> > case please revert them: there's nothing wrong with alternative
> > stylistic preferences.
> 
> Yes, there is nothing "wrong" with the text, but style matters greatly
> in writing, and the new version reads better.

Not to me.  And we shouldn't argue about this, because that's what
personal stylistic preferences are about: they are personal.

> Thus, as a reader, and also a non-native speaker, I prefer the
> patched version.

As a person who wrote the original text, I prefer that version.

> For instance, "of what does Eglot management of a buffer entail" makes
> me re-parse the sentence, whereas "of what Eglot management of a buffer
> entails" reads naturally.

I didn't revert that part.



      reply	other threads:[~2022-10-20 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-20 10:38 feature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistenciesfeature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistencies Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-20 10:59 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-20 13:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-20 11:35 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-20 12:24   ` Stefan Kangas
     [not found]     ` <87a65qty8a.fsf@gmail.com>
2022-10-20 13:50       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-22 19:59         ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-23  5:13           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-23 13:19             ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-23 16:18               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-20 15:02       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-20 16:18         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-20 20:34       ` Gregory Heytings
2022-10-20 22:35         ` Tim Cross
2022-10-21  6:04         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-21  8:41           ` Gregory Heytings
2022-10-23 19:14           ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-23 19:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-23 19:13         ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-20 15:11 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-10-20 16:20   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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