From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6877: Documentation: "till" vs "until" in docstrings Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:34:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k4nma0aa.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291899017 4069 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 12:50:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 13:50:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQfwr-0003XQ-5Z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:50:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQfwq-0007jr-Do for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35655 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQMCx-0003Ey-1o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:45:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQMCv-0005tJ-V5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:45:30 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53713) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQMCv-0005t4-Rw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:45:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQLwz-0003iZ-UC; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:29:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:29:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6877 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix notabug Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.129182209314228 (code B ref -1); Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:29:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Dec 2010 15:28:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQLwC-0003hQ-Op for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:28:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQLwA-0003hF-Vd for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:28:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQM1w-0003kD-5V for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:34:08 -0500 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]:55150) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQM1w-0003k9-3X for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:34:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54187 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQM1u-0007wE-QI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:34:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQM1s-0003jD-VJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:34:06 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:42857) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQM1s-0003j9-Se for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:34:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQM1p-0003ht-ML; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:34:01 -0500 In-reply-to: <87k4nma0aa.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:07:57 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:29:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:42330 Archived-At: > From: Ted Zlatanov > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:07:57 -0500 > > EZ> Quite a few of them could become longer than one line if "till" is > EZ> replaced by "until". (They are already too long, IMO.) Emacs coding > EZ> guidelines mandate that the short description fit on a single line. > > I think that can be resolved by judicious editing. Generally we should > not contort the language to save a character; let's fix the long lines > instead of using "till." I count 228 ocurrences in the Emacs source (67 > in the source according to `ack') and will fix them[1] if you agree. Given editing that is "judicious" enough, I certainly agree ;-) TIA