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Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity'

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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38077: closed (Error on texinfo documentation of variable
 'ls-lisp-verbosity')
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:25:02 +0000

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From: Cecilio Pardo <cpardo <at> imayhem.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Error on texinfo documentation of variable 'ls-lisp-verbosity'
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:01:05 +0100

Severity: documentation
Tags: patch

The info documentation fo ls-lisp-verbosity states that the value
contains 'one or more of the symbols', while the docstring says 'none or
more'. The empty list works ok, so it should be 'none'.


diff --git a/doc/emacs/msdos.texi b/doc/emacs/msdos.texi
index 55093a080a..920af2cbf5 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/msdos.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/msdos.texi
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ ls in Lisp
 @vindex ls-lisp-verbosity
   The variable @code{ls-lisp-verbosity} controls the file attributes
 that @file{ls-lisp.el} displays.  The value should be a list that
-contains one or more of the symbols @code{links}, @code{uid}, and
+contains none or more of the symbols @code{links}, @code{uid}, and
 @code{gid}.  @code{links} means display the count of different file
 names that are associated with (a.k.a.@: @dfn{links to}) the file's
 data; this is only useful on NTFS volumes.  @code{uid} means display

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Cecilio Pardo <cpardo <at> imayhem.com>
Cc: 38077-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38077: Error on texinfo documentation of variable
 'ls-lisp-verbosity'
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:23:43 +0200

> From: Cecilio Pardo <cpardo <at> imayhem.com>
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:01:05 +0100
> 
> The info documentation fo ls-lisp-verbosity states that the value
> contains 'one or more of the symbols', while the docstring says 'none or
> more'. The empty list works ok, so it should be 'none'.

Thanks.  "None or more" sounds awkward, so I fixed this a bit
differently.

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