From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40011: Remove unnecessary abbreviations from documentation Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:49:59 +0200 Message-ID: <83v9nc9sdk.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="30526"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 40011@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 10 15:51:19 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jBgE3-0007q2-Py for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:51:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34648 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jBgE2-0003JD-RY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57017) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jBgDn-0003Ha-4Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jBgDm-0001uL-5z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47091) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jBgDm-0001tr-2f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jBgDl-0001kY-UH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:51:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:51:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 40011 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 40011-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B40011.15838518156672 (code B ref 40011); Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:51:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 40011) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Mar 2020 14:50:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53064 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jBgD0-0001jX-5c for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40482) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jBgCw-0001jC-Ev for 40011@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37212) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jBgCr-0006dt-1J; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1738 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jBgCj-00078c-Cr; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:49:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:54:25 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:177139 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:54:25 +0100 > Cc: richard stallman > > Please consider removing the following acronyms from the > documentation, both the manual(s) and doc strings: > > 1. no. ("number") > 2. e.g. ("for example") > 3. i.e. ("that is", "namely", etc.) > 4. c.f. ("in contrast to", "compared with", etc.) > 5. w.r.t. ("with respect to") Let's not be too extreme: I'm against removing "e.g." and "i.e." at the least.