Subject: bug#47416: closed (Re: bug#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents')

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 08:06:02 +0000

Your bug report

#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents'

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents'
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 11:05:12 +0300
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tags 47416 wontfix
thanks

> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 07:09:26 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]>
> cc: [email-masked]
> 
> 
> >> What about replacing "which see" with "quod vide"?  It's not longer 
> >> (eight letters and one space), and is easier to look up than both 
> >> "which see" and "q.v.".
> >
> > ISTR that past discussions concluded that q.v. would be even more 
> > cryptic.  With "which see", at least native English speakers and those 
> > who are used to scientific literature would immediately understand what 
> > it means.
> 
> The only thing I see in that discussion (bug#28790) is: ""Quod vide" (qv) 
> is arguably more conventional, but for those who haven't encountered the 
> abbreviation or learned its meaning, it's a much tougher nut to crack." 
> So it's about the abbreviation, not about the expression in full.

That's your interpretation.

Anyway, we already had this discussion, so I'm closing this bug
report.

Subject: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents'
From: Tim Lee <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 02:12:50 +0800
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The last paragraph/sentence in the documentation of 'insert-file-contents' is:

> In addition, this function decodes the inserted text from known formats
> by calling `format-decode', which see.

It looks like there is something wrong about this sentence.

"... which see." — See what?

The sentence was introduced by commit bb085aed9593 (2012-12-21).