GNU bug report logs - #40011
Remove unnecessary abbreviations from documentation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:55:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 40011 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 40011 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40011: Remove unnecessary abbreviations from documentation
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:49:59 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:54:25 +0100
> Cc: richard stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Please consider removing the following acronyms from the
> documentation, both the manual(s) and doc strings:
> 
> 1. no. ("number")
> 2. e.g. ("for example")
> 3. i.e. ("that is", "namely", etc.)
> 4. c.f. ("in contrast to", "compared with", etc.)
> 5. w.r.t. ("with respect to")

Let's not be too extreme: I'm against removing "e.g." and "i.e." at
the least.
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