From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#39778: [PATCH] checkdoc: Don't mistake "cf." for sentence end Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:57:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877e0aambr.fsf@gmail.com> <0aabe857-71d1-4509-9794-f53697f824c9@default> <8736ayac57.fsf@gmail.com> <7982367d-3711-4dd3-ac78-097bfe966235@default> <87imjumxff.fsf@gnu.org> <878skqz8k2.fsf@stefankangas.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="105137"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: bzg@gnu.org, 39778@debbugs.gnu.org, stepnem@gmail.com To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 26 03:59:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j6mum-000REB-4Y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 26 Feb 2020 03:59:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37340 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j6mul-0001zW-86 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:59:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j6mud-0001wZ-1O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:59:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j6muc-00043e-42 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:59:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:50319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j6muc-00042V-0x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:59:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1j6mub-0007Gi-VK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:59:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 02:59:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 39778 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 39778-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B39778.158268588427864 (code B ref 39778); Wed, 26 Feb 2020 02:59:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 39778) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Feb 2020 02:58:04 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56292 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1j6mtf-0007FM-Nb for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:58:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46652) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1j6mtd-0007Eq-Be for 39778@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:58:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34527) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j6mtX-0000Zo-Sw; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:57:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1j6mtV-0000Ce-Hp; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:57:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <878skqz8k2.fsf@stefankangas.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:00:29 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:176489 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > "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. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)