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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: "arthur.miller@live.com" <arthur.miller@live.com>,
	"50646@debbugs.gnu.org" <50646@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#50646: [External] : bug#50646: 28.0.50; narrow-to-defun sometimes narrows to wrong defun
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 15:25:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB54880EF54727244A5045E112F3DF9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o88o4v53.fsf@gnu.org>

> Something like
> 
>   This is contrary to other functions, like `insert-file-contents',
>   which may modify a buffer in several ways after ...

[very minor nit]:

Use "such as", not "like", here.

"Such as" explicitly includes `insert-file-contents'
among the "other functions".  "Like" does not
necessarily include it.

But in practice, many, maybe most, people don't and
won't make/understand/notice the difference.

https://www.grammarbank.com/such-as-vs-like.html

https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/vs/how-such-as-vs-like-are-different-and-which-to-choose.html

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/like-versus-such-as





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-19 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-17 17:06 bug#50646: 28.0.50; narrow-to-defun sometimes narrows to wrong defun arthur.miller
2021-09-18 14:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-18 17:27   ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-18 18:34     ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-19  8:34   ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-19  3:41 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-19  6:36   ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-19 10:56     ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-19 20:02       ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-19  8:33   ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-19 10:04     ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-19 12:01       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-19 12:06         ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-19 12:17           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-19 12:53             ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-19 13:43               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-19 14:21                 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-19 15:22                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-19 15:25             ` Drew Adams [this message]
2021-09-19 19:57       ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-20  6:02         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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