Re: emacs-26 63c93f7: Fix typos and wording in the Emacs manual

Re: emacs-26 63c93f7: Fix typos and wording in the Emacs manual

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> commit 63c93f7ecd469cd8267f2c7c87530341a157b144

> diff --git a/doc/emacs/dired.texi b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
> index 6b6ab3a..94a10fe 100644
> --- a/doc/emacs/dired.texi
> +++ b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
> @@ -579,9 +579,10 @@ might be inconsistent with the file on disk if its contents have changed
>  since it was last visited.  If you don't want this, you may wish to
>  revert the files you have visited in your buffers, or to turn on
>  the @code{auto-revert} mode in those buffers, before invoking this
> -command.  @xref{Reverting}.  If you prefer that this command always revisit
> -the file, without having to revert the file or enable @code{auto-revert}
> -mode, you might want to set @code{dired-always-read-filesystem} to non-@code{nil}.
> +command.  @xref{Reverting}.  If you prefer that this command always
> +revisits the file, without having to revert the file or enable
> +@code{auto-revert} mode, you might want to set
> +@code{dired-always-read-filesystem} to non-@code{nil}.


I believe the original wording to be the preferable one.

Re: emacs-26 63c93f7: Fix typos and wording in the Emacs manual

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:29:12 -0500
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> I believe the original wording to be the preferable one.

Thanks, but please consider taking this up with the person who
proposed the change, he is mentioned in the log message.  I'm not
qualified to argue about intricacies of the English grammar.