From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete-other-frames
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 10:45:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fupqd58o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49a2a9c7-8573-4f07-897f-3eb444679d8a@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 26 Aug 2016 23:31:19 -0700 (PDT))
> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 23:31:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> 2. I think Eli was talking about something different, but
> related: the fact that in Emacs doc the name of a parameter
> is often chosen to be a type name, and a convention is to
> omit the type noun to which the restrictive appositive
> applies and let the parameter name stand alone.
Yes, that's what was on my mind.
> IOW, if the name of the individual echoes the name of the
> type then we can get by with just the individual name.
>
> Example:
>
> Just "copy FILE to DIRECTORY", instead of "copy file FILE
> to directory DIRECTORY" (or the even heavier "copy the
> file FILE to the directory DIRECTORY).
>
> And if there are multiple individuals of the same type
> then we can use different names for them that each echo
> the type name: "copy FILE1 and FILE2 to DIRECTORY".
>
> This is a kind of abbreviation, and it is fine too.
Exactly.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-27 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-23 8:19 delete-other-frames martin rudalics
2016-08-23 14:09 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-23 17:56 ` delete-other-frames Richard Copley
2016-08-23 18:31 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-23 19:55 ` delete-other-frames Richard Copley
2016-08-24 9:07 ` delete-other-frames martin rudalics
2016-08-24 9:06 ` delete-other-frames martin rudalics
2016-08-25 9:16 ` delete-other-frames martin rudalics
2016-08-25 14:46 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-27 1:32 ` delete-other-frames Richard Stallman
2016-08-27 7:40 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<E1bdSUT-00059T-8W@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-08-27 6:31 ` delete-other-frames Drew Adams
2016-08-27 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-08-27 13:32 ` delete-other-frames allan gottlieb
2016-08-27 13:40 ` delete-other-frames allan gottlieb
2016-08-27 21:45 ` delete-other-frames Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <<49a2a9c7-8573-4f07-897f-3eb444679d8a@default>
[not found] ` <<E1bdlPn-0005Ch-I4@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-08-28 0:41 ` delete-other-frames Drew Adams
[not found] <<57BC072F.9070704@gmx.at>
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