GNU bug report logs - #32731
26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 18:20:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 26.1.50

Done: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #56 received at 32731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 32731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tino.calancha <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 21:37:27 -0400
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  > If you'll pardon another nit, I suggest using "they" instead of "s?he"
  > which has the advantage of being a pronounceable English word.

Using "they" for a singular antecedent is confusing, and I always find
it jarring.  I won't make a rule against, but I make a point of never
using that construction.  "S?he" avoids the confusion because it is
clearly singular.

I use a different set of gender-neutral singular pronouns, which I
think fit better into English.  See
https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
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