From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: NEWS.22: `allows' without an object
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:17:10 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1HsmaU-0027M2C@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In English, as heard by a native,
*** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows to
in emacs/etc/NEWS.22 sounds wrong. It would sound better if it were
*** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows you to
^^^
Also in that same file, in
*** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file.
the line
the end of the buffer in that window. This allows to tail a file:
could be
the end of the buffer in that window. This allows you to tail a file:
^^^
In
*** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail.
the line
This version of `movemail' allows to read mail from a wide range of
could be
This version of `movemail' allows you to read mail from a wide range of
^^^
(I think I found all the infelicities involving `allow'. There may be
others but I stopped because the file was too big. Mostly, I just
looked at the outline, but even that was large, over 5000 lines. You
may substitute `GNU Emacs' for `you'.)
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next reply other threads:[~2007-05-28 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-28 21:17 Robert J. Chassell [this message]
[not found] ` <2cd46e7f0705281639m4e06b938sd0fbcc6d710812dc@mail.gmail.com>
2007-05-28 23:41 ` NEWS.22: `allows' without an object Ken Manheimer
2007-05-29 3:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-29 8:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-29 9:51 ` David Reitter
2007-05-29 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-29 10:33 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-05-29 11:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-29 16:00 ` Ken Manheimer
2007-05-29 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-29 8:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
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