* bug#56118: [PATCH] Fix typo in Info description of 'auto-insert-alist'
@ 2022-06-21 2:02 Okamsn via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-21 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-22 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Okamsn via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2022-06-21 2:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 56118
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Hello,
This joins with a comma two sentences that were separated by a period
instead of ending the first sentence after the first item of an "either"
phrase.
Thank you.
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From 63ccd97ec161752dba7e399d6fd3d9992d5d31bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Earl Hyatt <okamsn@protonmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:49:39 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix typo in the description of 'auto-insert-alist'.
---
doc/misc/autotype.texi | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/misc/autotype.texi b/doc/misc/autotype.texi
index a3b0f16df9..a880642ac3 100644
--- a/doc/misc/autotype.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/autotype.texi
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ Autoinserting
What gets inserted, if anything, is determined by the variable
@code{auto-insert-alist}. The @sc{car}s of this list are each either
a mode name, making an element applicable when a buffer is in that
-mode. Or they can be a string, which is a regexp matched against the
+mode, or they can be a string, which is a regexp matched against the
buffer's file name. In that way different kinds of files that have
the same mode in Emacs can be distinguished. The @sc{car}s may also
be cons cells consisting of mode name or regexp as above and an
--
2.34.1
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* bug#56118: [PATCH] Fix typo in Info description of 'auto-insert-alist'
2022-06-21 2:02 bug#56118: [PATCH] Fix typo in Info description of 'auto-insert-alist' Okamsn via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
@ 2022-06-21 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-21 10:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-22 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-06-21 2:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Okamsn; +Cc: 56118
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 02:02:41 +0000
> From: Okamsn via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> This joins with a comma two sentences that were separated by a period
> instead of ending the first sentence after the first item of an "either"
> phrase.
Both styles are valid (and I believe used elsewhere in our docs).
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* bug#56118: [PATCH] Fix typo in Info description of 'auto-insert-alist'
2022-06-21 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2022-06-21 10:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2022-06-21 10:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: Okamsn, 56118
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> This joins with a comma two sentences that were separated by a period
>> instead of ending the first sentence after the first item of an "either"
>> phrase.
>
> Both styles are valid (and I believe used elsewhere in our docs).
Yup. But the change does make the paragraph read better, in my opinion,
so I've pushed Earl's change to Emacs 28.
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2022-06-21 2:02 bug#56118: [PATCH] Fix typo in Info description of 'auto-insert-alist' Okamsn via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-21 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2022-06-22 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
2022-06-22 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2022-06-22 2:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Okamsn; +Cc: 56118
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> @code{auto-insert-alist}. The @sc{car}s of this list are each either
> a mode name, making an element applicable when a buffer is in that
> -mode. Or they can be a string, which is a regexp matched against the
> +mode, or they can be a string, which is a regexp matched against the
The change is ok, but deleting "they can be" would make it better writing.
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* bug#56118: [PATCH] Fix typo in Info description of 'auto-insert-alist'
2022-06-22 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2022-06-22 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-06-22 13:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rms; +Cc: okamsn, 56118
> Cc: 56118@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:52:18 -0400
>
> > @code{auto-insert-alist}. The @sc{car}s of this list are each either
> > a mode name, making an element applicable when a buffer is in that
> > -mode. Or they can be a string, which is a regexp matched against the
> > +mode, or they can be a string, which is a regexp matched against the
>
> The change is ok, but deleting "they can be" would make it better writing.
Thanks, done.
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