From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: 23746@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 22:22:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bn37h6o0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1nnofd2.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Sat, 11 Jun 2016 18:32:57 +0200)
> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: 23746@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 18:32:57 +0200
>
> >> If the process's buffer is displayed in a window, your Lisp program
> >> -may wish telling the process the dimensions of that window, so that
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> -the process could adapt its output to those dimensions, much as it
> ^^^^^
> >> -adapts to the screen dimensions. The following functions allow to
> ^^^^^^^^
> >> -communicate this kind of information to processes; however, not all
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> -systems support the underlying functionality, so it is best to provide
> >> -fallbacks, e.g., via command-line arguments or environment variables.
> >> +may wish to tell the process the dimensions of that window, so that
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> +the process can adapt its output to those dimensions, much as it
> ^^^
> >> +adapts to the screen dimensions. The following functions allow your
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> >> +program to communicate this kind of information to processes; however,
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> +not all systems support the underlying functionality, so it is best to
> >> +provide fallbacks, e.g., via command-line arguments or environment
> >> +variables.
> >
> > This goes against the rest of the changes, which correctly made the
> > opposite replacement. I see no reason to make the opposite change
> > here.
>
> I don't understand what you mean; the changes in that hunk are strictly
> grammatical corrections (underlined).
Yes. They are just backwards: "may wish telling" => "may wish to tell".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-11 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-11 15:54 bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification) Stephen Berman
2016-06-11 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-11 16:32 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-11 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-06-11 20:21 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-12 17:58 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-12 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-12 19:40 ` Ken Brown
2016-06-12 21:09 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-13 4:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-13 9:20 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-13 9:25 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-13 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-13 14:27 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-13 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-13 16:12 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-13 16:22 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-14 2:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-14 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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