From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Carlos Ysais <carlos.ysais@yahoo.com>, 43965@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43965: 27.1; An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 05:53:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnC5NNoNWCh4UYaPz4=F4j8SfZyPdBPv1=eg1Yn+s3X1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kSYd6-0001B2-4f@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:43:12 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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>
> > The original sentence was already correct and I was just reading "line
> > point" as
> > a single word rather than separate words which made me confused. Though
> > personally I find inserting "where" to transform the phrase to "the line
> > where
> > point is on" makes it less confusing.
>
> Adding a word there seems like a good idea. Thanks for suggesting it.
>
> Grammatically, the word should be "that", not "where", because its
> antecedent is the omitted object of the preposition "on".
>
> Where exactly did you find that text?
I found that text, and will push a fix for it. Thanks.
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[not found] <480a1ebd-ad02-5695-5a27-340af48197f7.ref@yahoo.com>
2020-10-12 16:26 ` bug#43965: 27.1; An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp Carlos Ysais via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-10-13 3:57 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-13 12:26 ` Carlos Ysais via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-10-14 4:43 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-11 12:53 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-10-11 21:15 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-14 10:29 ` Carlos Ysais via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-10-15 3:54 ` Richard Stallman
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