GNU bug report logs - #38077
Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Cecilio Pardo <cpardo <at> imayhem.com>

Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 23:02:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: cpardo <at> imayhem.com, 38077 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38077: Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity'
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:29:20 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 23:39:43 -0500
> Cc: 38077 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> "None or more" sounds very strange in English.  It is better to say 
> "zero or more".
> 
> "A list of zero or more of the following symbols:"

Yes, but I preferred to say "nil" instead of "list of zero symbols".
This is a user manual, not an ELisp manual, so we shouldn't assume
every reader knows they are equivalent.
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