From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23746: 25.0.95; Doc fixes (grammar, typos, clarification) Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 21:55:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83vb1efd9v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h9czoh5v.fsf@gmx.net> <83d1nnhfmu.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1nnofd2.fsf@gmx.net> <83bn37h6o0.fsf@gnu.org> <871t421e7w.fsf@gmx.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465757729 10838 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2016 18:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 18:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23746@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 12 20:55:18 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bCAXV-0001JQ-Ro for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:55:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52355 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCAXV-0007yZ-2x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:55:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51391) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCAXM-0007uk-Ir for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCAXG-0007uj-5u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:54164) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCAXG-0007uf-2K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:55:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bCAXF-0004JB-Re for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:55:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 18:55:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 23746 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 23746-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B23746.146575769116540 (code B ref 23746); Sun, 12 Jun 2016 18:55:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23746) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Jun 2016 18:54:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38268 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bCAX5-0004Ii-FO for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60389) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bCAX4-0004I7-7J for 23746@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:54:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCAWt-0007tI-K6 for 23746@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:54:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCAWt-0007tD-HB; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:54:39 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2912 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bCAWp-0003DN-Hx; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:54:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <871t421e7w.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Sun, 12 Jun 2016 19:58:27 +0200) 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: 208.118.235.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:119462 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Berman > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 23746@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 19:58:27 +0200 > > On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 16:21:19 -0400 Noam Postavsky wrote: > > > As a native English speaker, "your Lisp program may wish telling the > > process" sounds obviously incorrect (though I'm not sure how to > > explain why in terms of grammatical rules). Whereas, "your Lisp > > program may wish to tell the process" is correct. > > That's one argument for this change; another is the statistical one > based on the existing Emacs documentation: > > steve@rosalinde:/data/steve/git/emacs> grep -r " wish to " doc/ | wc -l > 196 > steve@rosalinde:/data/steve/git/emacs> grep -r " wish [a-z]*ing " doc/ > doc/lispref/processes.texi:may wish telling the process the dimensions > > Eli, does this persuade you to accept this change too? Sorry, no. There's nothing wrong in the original wording in this case.