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27.1; An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp

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Message #23 received at 43965 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43965 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Carlos Ysais <carlos.ysais <at> yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: bug#43965: 27.1; An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 05:53:11 -0700

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

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>
>   > The original sentence was already correct and I was just reading "line
>   > point" as
>   > a single word rather than separate words which made me confused. Though
>   > personally I find inserting "where" to transform the phrase to "the line
>   > where
>   > point is on" makes it less confusing.
>
> Adding a word there seems like a good idea.  Thanks for suggesting it.
>
> Grammatically, the word should be "that", not "where", because its
> antecedent is the omitted object of the preposition "on".
>
> Where exactly did you find that text?

I found that text, and will push a fix for it.  Thanks.

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