From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Roland Hughes <roland@logikalsolutions.com>
Cc: stepnem@gmail.com, 40697@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40697: 25.3; sort-lines not accepting reverse parameter
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:08:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834ktfk4he.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a9365038-e3be-f9b2-0e96-f6a475f767e6@logikalsolutions.com> (message from Roland Hughes on Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:48:19 -0500)
> Cc: stepnem@gmail.com, 40697@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Roland Hughes <roland@logikalsolutions.com>
> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:48:19 -0500
>
> The wording in the help text is rather expert friendly. A user coming in
> cold to Emacs is going to interpret "prefix argument" as
>
> [GOLD]-7 REVERSE sort-lines [RETURN]
I can only say that I used the terminology and style that are used
everywhere in our doc strings.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-19 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-18 11:34 bug#40697: 25.3; sort-lines not accepting reverse parameter Roland Hughes
2020-04-18 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-18 18:43 ` Roland Hughes
2020-04-18 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-18 19:05 ` Roland Hughes
2020-04-18 16:15 ` Štěpán Němec
2020-04-18 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-13 1:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-04-18 18:45 ` Roland Hughes
2020-04-18 19:12 ` Štěpán Němec
2020-04-18 19:35 ` Roland Hughes
2020-04-18 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-18 19:48 ` Roland Hughes
2020-04-19 13:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-04-19 13:40 ` Roland Hughes
2020-04-19 16:21 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-04-19 16:58 ` Roland Hughes
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