From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: bzg@gnu.org, 39778@debbugs.gnu.org, stepnem@gmail.com
Subject: bug#39778: [PATCH] checkdoc: Don't mistake "cf." for sentence end
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:57:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1j6mtV-0000Ce-Hp@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878skqz8k2.fsf@stefankangas.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:00:29 +0100)
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> "It is often tempting to use abbreviations such as 'no.', 'i.e.',
> 'e.g.' 'c.f.' and 'w.r.t.' These save little space on the page,
> but slow readers down.
That is good advice, but it changes the subject.
The question is not whether to use those old abbreviations.
It is whether Emacs should support editing of files that do use them.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-26 2:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-25 12:22 bug#39778: [PATCH] checkdoc: Don't mistake "cf." for sentence end Štěpán Němec
2020-02-25 15:49 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-25 16:02 ` Štěpán Němec
2020-02-25 16:35 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-25 16:41 ` Bastien
2020-02-25 21:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-02-25 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-26 2:57 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-02-26 15:03 ` Drew Adams
2020-03-10 2:41 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-10 13:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-02-28 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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