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bug#20011: etc/PROBLEMS: updates, wording, typos
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#20011: etc/PROBLEMS: updates, wording, typos |
Date: |
Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:23:21 +0300 |
> From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
> Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:20:19 +0000
>
> >>> There's nothing wrong with using "that" in these contexts,
>
> >> AIUI, there’s nothing wrong with using “which” there, either.
>
> > Indeed, there isn't. But making such changes in a single document on
> > top of that, leaving all the other uses intact, hardly makes sense.
> > It could make sense if we agreed not to use "that" in these cases,
> > and then changed that all over and wrote somewhere in the docs that
> > this is our style. But not in a single file.
>
> I’ve mostly dropped these changes, or (in three cases) reworded
> to avoid either.
>
> >>> replaces a recipe with an entirely different one. Why not keep
> >>> both?
>
> >> The former recipe seems to predate the introduction of
> >> visible-cursor. I see no reason to keep it now that there’s an easy
> >> way to solve the issue without having to modify terminfo or restart
> >> Emacs, etc. I presume that the more experienced users will be able
> >> to gather all what necessary for a terminfo-based solution from the
> >> “use software cursor” recipe just above the one at hand.
>
> > I don't know enough about this to judge, so I will defer to others.
> > (I generally prefer to keep existing knowledge intact, even if it's
> > old, as long as it's correct; but that's me.)
>
> Done.
>
> Please consider the revised patch MIMEd.
Looks good to me, thanks.