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view-hello-file documentation

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: robert marshall <robert <at> capuchin.co.uk>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: view-hello-file documentation
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:04:03 +0100 (BST)

view-hello-file has as documentation:

    Display the HELLO file which list up many languages and characters.

should this be 'which lists many languages...' or is 'list up' an
American idiom with which this Britisher is unfamilar ;-) in which
case it should be 'lists up'?


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 of 2008-06-27 on faure.capuchin.co.uk
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  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.UTF-8
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  locale-coding-system: utf-8
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Message #10 received at 497-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: robert marshall <robert <at> capuchin.co.uk>
Cc: 497-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#497: view-hello-file documentation
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:02:31 -0400

robert marshall wrote:

> view-hello-file has as documentation:
>
>     Display the HELLO file which list up many languages and characters.
>
> should this be 'which lists many languages...'

Thanks; fixed.

2008-06-28  robert marshall  <robert <at> capuchin.co.uk>  (tiny change)

            * international/mule-cmds.el (view-hello-file): Doc fix.

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