GNU bug report logs - #17993
24.4.50; doc string of `hi-lock-file-patterns-prefix'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:55:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.4.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 17993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17993: 24.4.50; doc string of `hi-lock-file-patterns-prefix'
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 22:35:35 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> 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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