GNU bug report logs - #39184
Documentation says "at present"

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Roland Illig <roland.illig <at> gmx.de>

Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:25:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Roland Illig <roland.illig <at> gmx.de>
To: 39184 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39184: Documentation says "at present"
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 23:24:39 +0100

Hi,

the documentation for diffutils uses the words "at present", which
quickly gets wrong and outdated.

https://github.com/Distrotech/diffutils/blame/49e3b25b41c934ca6945d94de98d747fa5cc9922/doc/diff.texi#L801

GNU diff is not really the only program in the world that can generate
and apply unified diffs.

Please fix the documentation to avoid the words "at present", "last
year" and similar terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Relative_time_references

Best,
Roland
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