From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Duplicate words
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:43:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87my1bmmah.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83ocls5eji.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:29:11 +0100
>>
>> Prompted by a duplicated "from" in a recent ChangeLog entry, I did some
>> automated searches for a few common duplicate words. Below is the
>> result of checking them all manually. Maybe someone wants to pick this
>> up, thanks.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> -Equivalent modes are specified by by `semantic-equivalent-major-modes'
>> +Equivalent modes are specified by the `semantic-equivalent-major-modes'
> ^^^
> That "the" thing is not needed.
You should have looked at the next context line. Without "the", the
sentence becomes ungrammatical.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-22 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-21 14:29 [PATCH] Duplicate words Mario Lang
2009-12-21 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-22 8:43 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2010-01-16 3:00 ` Glenn Morris
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