Subject: bug#36408: closed (Re: bug#36408: [PATCH] Fix typo in doc string of file-exists-p)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 07:40:02 +0000

Your bug report

#36408: [PATCH] Fix typo in doc string of file-exists-p

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#36408: [PATCH] Fix typo in doc string of file-exists-p
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 10:38:42 +0300
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> From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 23:19:03 -0400
> 
>   > > -       doc: /* Return t if file FILENAME exists (whether or not you
>   > > can read it.)
>   > > +       doc: /* Return t if file FILENAME exists (whether or not you
>   > > can read it).
> 
> In this case, the latter is correct.  You put a period inside the
> parentheses only when its contents consist of complete sentences.

Thanks, I pushed Stefan's patch to the emacs-26 branch.

Subject: [PATCH] Fix typo in doc string of file-exists-p
From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 02:12:32 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Please see the attached small fix, making sure the first line is a
complete sentence.

-       doc: /* Return t if file FILENAME exists (whether or not you
can read it.)
+       doc: /* Return t if file FILENAME exists (whether or not you
can read it).

Thanks,
Stefan Kangas