From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy'
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:54:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9xh3qn1.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141129153320.GC3752@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 29 Nov 2014 15:33:20 +0000")
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Hi, Eli.
Hi Eli, Alan,
>> > > REUSE-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS non-nil means return the name of an existing
>> > > local copy of FILE, if FILE's file attributes didn't change since
>> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> > > the last copy operation.
>
>> > "haven't changed", here, since it's expressing a current state. "didn't
>> > change" would be appropriate for referring to a past event.
>
>> It _is_ a past event, by the time this function is called.
>
> Yes, but it is that event's effect on the present which makes the
> "present perfect" the right tense.
>
> "haven't changed" is the correct tense here. Really it is.
Thanks for improving the docstring! I'm not a native speaker, so it is
always helpful for me.
Best regards, Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-30 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-29 11:29 Optional argument for `file-local-copy' Michael Albinus
2014-11-29 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 14:08 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-29 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 15:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-29 16:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-11-30 5:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-30 11:04 ` Michael Albinus
2014-11-30 14:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-30 17:24 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-02 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-02 14:53 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-02 20:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-02 21:24 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-02 22:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-09 13:32 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-10 14:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-11 9:20 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-11 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 10:22 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-14 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 14:24 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-14 22:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-15 7:41 ` Michael Albinus
2014-11-30 10:54 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
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