GNU bug report logs - #6877
Documentation: "till" vs "until" in docstrings

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:10:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6877: Documentation: "till" vs "until" in docstrings
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:34:01 -0500

> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:07:57 -0500
> 
> EZ> Quite a few of them could become longer than one line if "till" is
> EZ> replaced by "until".  (They are already too long, IMO.)  Emacs coding
> EZ> guidelines mandate that the short description fit on a single line.
> 
> I think that can be resolved by judicious editing.  Generally we should
> not contort the language to save a character; let's fix the long lines
> instead of using "till."  I count 228 ocurrences in the Emacs source (67
> in the source according to `ack') and will fix them[1] if you agree.

Given editing that is "judicious" enough, I certainly agree ;-)

TIA
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