Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Robert Pluim >> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:21:37 +0200 >> >> The documentation strings for left-word and right-word both say: >> >> Value is normally t. >> If an edge of the buffer or a field boundary is reached, point is left there >> there and the function returns nil. Field boundaries are not noticed >> >> >> 1. Which value is normally t? > > This is standard Emacs parlance: left-word is a function, and > functions generally return values in Lisp. So when we say "value is" > in the doc string of a function, we mean the value returned by that > function. > OK. Iʼve seen 'return value is' used elsewhere, now itʼs clear. >> 2. 'there' is repeated in the second sentence. > > This kind of stuff needs to be fixed, no need to report it. I found a few more repetitions like this [1], all in lisp docstrings. emacs-26 branch, I imagine?