On Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:55:24 +0300 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:41:16 +0200 >> From: Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, >> the Swiss army knife of text editors" >> >> Calling `describe-function' on a noninteractive non-byte-compiled >> function produces an ungrammatical sentence in the *Help* buffer: >> >> 0. emacs -Q >> 1. Load a non-byte-compiled file that contains a noninteractive function >> definition, e.g. edt-user.el from the Emacs "etc" directory. >> 2. Call `describe-function' on a noninteractive function from that file, >> e.g. `C-h f edt-setup-user-bindings RET'. >> ==> The *Help* buffer now begins with this sentence: >> >> edt-setup-user-bindings is a interpreted-function in >> ‘~/src/emacs/emacs-master/etc/edt-user.el’. >> >> It should say "...is an interpreted-function...". >> >> Here are three possible fixes: > > Thanks. > > I think this splits hair, but if we want to do that, let's do it > right: instead of hard-coding specific words, implement a function > that produces "a" or "an" depending on the following word. Because > tomorrow someone will add yet another function qualifier, and what > will we do then? add one more hard-coded phrase? How's this?