From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Carlos Ysais <carlos.ysais@yahoo.com>
Cc: 43965@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43965: 27.1; An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:43:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kSYd6-0001B2-4f@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1166e1fc-0d86-71dd-72cf-475757b67e54@yahoo.com> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
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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?
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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 [this message]
2021-10-11 12:53 ` Stefan Kangas
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
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