From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 36408@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36408: [PATCH] Fix typo in doc string of file-exists-p
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:38:55 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2907f91-9882-40b8-903f-65f1843a99c2@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83imsqi5hc.fsf@gnu.org>>
> > - doc: /* Return t if file FILENAME exists (whether or not you
> > can read it.)
> > + doc: /* Return t if file FILENAME exists (whether or not you
> > can read it).
>
> AFAIK, this is a long-standing stylistic issue. I'm not sure what
> people prefer or whether we should insist on consistency in these
> cases.
FWIW: There's no stylistic issue here. The first
is incorrect; the second is correct. You won't
find any style guide that would opt for or approve
of the former: "___ ___ (__ __.)". That's not even
a sentence.
next parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-28 15:38 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <<83imsqi5hc.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-06-28 15:38 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-06-28 0:12 bug#36408: [PATCH] Fix typo in doc string of file-exists-p Stefan Kangas
2019-06-28 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-29 3:19 ` Richard Stallman
2019-06-29 7:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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