From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete-other-frames
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:32:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1bdSUT-00059T-8W@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83inuoewjy.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 17:46:09 +0300)
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> For the future, please adopt the following style:
> This function deletes the specified @var{frame}.
> rather than using this:
> This function deletes the frame @var{frame}.
The latter is the grammatically correct way. A parameter name in
italics, such as "@var{frame}", acts as a _name_ that refers to the
actual value of the argument. Just as we would write
Send it to my assistant, Jeanne.
we should write,
delete the frame, @var{f}.
or
delete the frame, @var{frame}.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-27 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-23 8:19 delete-other-frames martin rudalics
2016-08-23 14:09 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-23 17:56 ` delete-other-frames Richard Copley
2016-08-23 18:31 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-23 19:55 ` delete-other-frames Richard Copley
2016-08-24 9:07 ` delete-other-frames martin rudalics
2016-08-24 9:06 ` delete-other-frames martin rudalics
2016-08-25 9:16 ` delete-other-frames martin rudalics
2016-08-25 14:46 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-27 1:32 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-08-27 7:40 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<E1bdSUT-00059T-8W@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-08-27 6:31 ` delete-other-frames Drew Adams
2016-08-27 7:45 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-27 13:32 ` delete-other-frames allan gottlieb
2016-08-27 13:40 ` delete-other-frames allan gottlieb
2016-08-27 21:45 ` delete-other-frames Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <<49a2a9c7-8573-4f07-897f-3eb444679d8a@default>
[not found] ` <<E1bdlPn-0005Ch-I4@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-08-28 0:41 ` delete-other-frames Drew Adams
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