From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#43965: 27.1; An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:15:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1166e1fc-0d86-71dd-72cf-475757b67e54.ref@yahoo.com> <1166e1fc-0d86-71dd-72cf-475757b67e54@yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="677"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 11 23:18:09 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ma2gS-000Ab3-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2021 23:18:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40806 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ma2gR-0007Fn-Af for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:18:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ma2eK-0004TG-2g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:15:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39730) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ma2eJ-0003la-Jb; Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:15:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ma2eI-00068T-Fg; Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:15:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Mon, 11 Oct 2021 05:53:11 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276753 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. ]]] > > 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? Ah, I see it is in the Emacs Lisp intro -- a manual I didn't write. (Its author was the late Bob Chassell.) No wonder I didn't recognize that text. That manual needs a lot of updating. Might you be willing to help? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)