bug#38077: Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity'

bug#38077: Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity'

[Cecilio Pardo]

Severity: documentation
Tags: patch

The info documentation fo ls-lisp-verbosity states that the value
contains 'one or more of the symbols', while the docstring says 'none or
more'. The empty list works ok, so it should be 'none'.


diff --git a/doc/emacs/msdos.texi b/doc/emacs/msdos.texi
index 55093a080a..920af2cbf5 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/msdos.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/msdos.texi
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ ls in Lisp
 @vindex ls-lisp-verbosity
   The variable @code{ls-lisp-verbosity} controls the file attributes
 that @file{ls-lisp.el} displays.  The value should be a list that
-contains one or more of the symbols @code{links}, @code{uid}, and
+contains none or more of the symbols @code{links}, @code{uid}, and
 @code{gid}.  @code{links} means display the count of different file
 names that are associated with (a.k.a.@: @dfn{links to}) the file's
 data; this is only useful on NTFS volumes.  @code{uid} means display

-- 
Cecilio Pardo

bug#38077: Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Cecilio Pardo <cpardo@imayhem.com>
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:01:05 +0100
> 
> The info documentation fo ls-lisp-verbosity states that the value
> contains 'one or more of the symbols', while the docstring says 'none or
> more'. The empty list works ok, so it should be 'none'.

Thanks.  "None or more" sounds awkward, so I fixed this a bit
differently.

bug#38077: Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity'

[Richard Stallman]

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"None or more" sounds very strange in English.  It is better to say 
"zero or more".

"A list of zero or more of the following symbols:"

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bug#38077: Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 23:39:43 -0500
> Cc: 38077@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> "None or more" sounds very strange in English.  It is better to say 
> "zero or more".
> 
> "A list of zero or more of the following symbols:"

Yes, but I preferred to say "nil" instead of "list of zero symbols".
This is a user manual, not an ELisp manual, so we shouldn't assume
every reader knows they are equivalent.