From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 29bf0a8b31b 1/2: ; * etc/NEWS: Fix typos. Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:15:15 +0300 Message-ID: <86jze6ndho.fsf@gnu.org> References: <172882686121.584233.13887173516891455449@vcs3.savannah.gnu.org> <20241013134102.213012858BD@vcs3.savannah.gnu.org> <87v7xqztb9.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> <878qumwzmt.fsf@gmx.de> <87plnyxc8k.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15939"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sean Whitton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 18 08:16:30 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1t1gHm-00041H-Ge for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:16:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t1gGt-0002nA-96; Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:15:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t1gGp-0002mO-MJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:15:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t1gGo-00045u-Rk; Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:15:30 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=yZINi6SnxCylW/wz1ERIcgranRZd0rvozVl0/0opFW0=; b=VSv+Kf16PYcQ g7jJknIld/fq3Z0SGWhKDR8A6FqjL9P+vCyZd9IAK0WxgSZwAjMJdQ2GmY2mAPZBQ6Wa22UEVYlQ+ SWWg6/Q8NbTsUV/mlujaNm1HEjIUjk0hn9UEE4yJ0LiY91+WeG8Jb7pniAdBu720BAwduSc+zrDdQ WRGLZdjTwZYSo77nZ16xdVyQGZ8qXgGhpmaj3wlSBcDSzDaZ6/SNgyVgKO8f/GS7chSFUbIasZO3U cr9sKdfTswISQgRZv+GbhaacjvkvTrxnkyBEDp2pgwkwJvgnAhqZJwzE5mMzbshXfwL9WssyXD7xK VP64Y9d63BghLpchrERVQg==; In-Reply-To: <87plnyxc8k.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (message from Sean Whitton on Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:32:11 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:324646 Archived-At: > From: Sean Whitton > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:32:11 +0800 > > On Thu 17 Oct 2024 at 06:21pm +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Btw, why is it so important to have this in a single line? > > It's not that important. I think in this case it is nice how it > deemphasises a less important change as compared with all the new > features. I asked the question because IME shorter sentences tend to make it easier to understand complicated issues. So if you can break a long sentence into several shorter ones, it is generally advisable to do that. There's also a special consideration for NEWS: if the user reads NEWS in folded mode, a shorter heading will allow easier skipping over stuff that is not interesting for the user.