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25.1: Falsehood on page "Major Modes" of Emacs manual.

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Message #8 received at 24891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, 24891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#24891: 25.1: Falsehood on page "Major Modes" of Emacs manual.
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 15:19:57 -0800 (PST)

> In the Emacs manual, page "Major Modes" appears the following:
>
>     all programming language modes run `prog-mode-hook', prior to
>     running their own mode hooks.
>
> I suggest amending this sentence to something like:
> 
>     many programming language modes (including all these distributed
>     with Emacs) run `prog-mode-hook', prior to runnuing their own
>     mode hooks.

+1.

But: these -> those,
     runnuing -> running,
     and we can drop the comma before "prior".

And I'm not sure why we need to or should say "(including...)".  Why?

I'd suggest just this:

  many programming language modes run `prog-mode-hook' before
  running their own mode hooks

Or even "some" instead of "many".  What does it matter how
many do this?

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