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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com>
Cc: 67848-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67848: 29.1; Fix usage of `setq-default' and add explanation
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 10:47:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bkagc7hu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878r5kf5jo.fsf@debian-hx90.lan> (message from Xiyue Deng on Sat,  23 Dec 2023 23:00:59 -0800)

> From: Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com>
> Cc: 67848@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 23:00:59 -0800
> 
> While I kind of agree with what you said here, this requires a much
> larger rewrite of the text, because there are several paragraphs that
> span several sections that follows the author's original advice of
> making newly opened files to use text-mode instead of fundamental mode
> by default.  Neither being a writer, nor even a native English speaker,
> I don't consider myself a good candidate to make such a drastic change
> to this classic book.
> 
> So instead I added another footnote at the first sentence of this
> section to suggest that the suggestion was aimed for writers and the
> reader can feel free not to do this.  The new patch is attached.  PTAL.

Thanks, installed on the emacs-29 branch, and closing the bug.





      reply	other threads:[~2023-12-24  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-16 11:18 bug#67848: 29.1; Fix usage of `setq-default' and add explanation Xiyue Deng
2023-12-16 11:26 ` Xiyue Deng
2023-12-23  9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-23 10:09   ` Xiyue Deng
2023-12-23 11:20     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-24  7:00       ` Xiyue Deng
2023-12-24  8:47         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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