Subject: Re: bug#17993: 24.4.50; doc string of `hi-lock-file-patterns-prefix'

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 22:35:35 +0200

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> Doc string:
>
>   Search target for finding hi-lock patterns at top of file.
>
> This is a variable.  The description is confusing/unclear, because
> "Search" is too easily parsed as a verb (as opposed to parsing "Search
> target" as a noun phrase: the target of a search).

I agree, and I've now changed the doc string for Emacs 27.

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