From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: mattiase@acm.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com,
John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Subject: Re: master 583cb26 2/3: Improve accuracy in string-replace description (bug#43598)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:12:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k0wdukdy.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d025l34x.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 29 Sep 2020 05:37:18 +0300")
>>>>> On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 05:37:18 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>> From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
>> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:36:24 -0400
>> Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>,
>> Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>,
>> Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 2:12 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > What do you find extremely confusing about it?
>> >
>> > The "equal" part.
>>
>> Return a string equivalent to @var{instring} with every occurence
>> of @var{fromstring} replaced by @var{tostring}.
Eli> Thanks, this is better. But "equivalent" is too vague to be useful.
Eli> What's wrong with the below? That's the natural way I'd say that.
Eli> Replace every occurrence of FROMSTRING with TOSTRING in INSTRING,
Eli> and return the result.
Thatʼs the 'imperative' version of what I originally proposed. I like
it.
Robert
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[not found] ` <20200927124522.BA20F207E0@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-09-28 9:42 ` master 583cb26 2/3: Improve accuracy in string-replace description (bug#43598) Robert Pluim
2020-09-28 9:59 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-09-28 11:09 ` Robert Pluim
[not found] ` <CAJnXXojjUAcRVmsZNWQ2j9rSDv76Y0od4yWfVg11k-Q2tf4NYA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-09-28 13:50 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-28 16:36 ` John Yates
2020-09-28 16:49 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-28 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 17:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-28 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 22:36 ` John Yates
2020-09-28 22:47 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-29 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29 4:28 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-29 5:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29 15:28 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-29 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29 7:12 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-09-29 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29 15:23 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-29 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 17:44 ` John Yates
2020-09-29 13:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-29 14:08 ` Mattias Engdegård
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