GNU bug report logs - #47416
Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tim Lee <progscriptclone <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:21:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Tim Lee <progscriptclone <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 47416 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents'
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:32:28 +0100

> Am 26.03.2021 um 19:12 schrieb Tim Lee <progscriptclone <at> gmail.com>:
> 
> 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?

Apparently this is correct English.  "... X, which see" means roughly "To find out more, look up X."



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