From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 17993@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17993: 24.4.50; doc string of `hi-lock-file-patterns-prefix'
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 22:35:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0hmc7hk.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b8049e8-1a4f-4e25-8524-10325ddc0476@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:39:19 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Doc string:
>
> Search target for finding hi-lock patterns at top of file.
>
> This is a variable. The description is confusing/unclear, because
> "Search" is too easily parsed as a verb (as opposed to parsing "Search
> target" as a noun phrase: the target of a search).
I agree, and I've now changed the doc string for Emacs 27.
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2014-07-10 16:39 bug#17993: 24.4.50; doc string of `hi-lock-file-patterns-prefix' Drew Adams
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