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31.0.50; Ungrammatical sentence from describe-function

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm, 79469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#79469: 31.0.50; Ungrammatical sentence from describe-function
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:53:34 +0300

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
> Cc: joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm,  79469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:03:22 +0200
> 
> > If we don't care about being wrong in some cases, then why fix this to
> > begin with?
> 
> AFAIK there are no cases in the current code for which the fix I
> proposed (in any of the variants) is wrong, and the last version is
> likely to DTRT for many, if not all, plausible future additions to the
> repertoire of functions type symbols.  I think a fix that would work in
> all possible cases would require consulting a large wordlist (that would
> have to be continually updated) and I don't think this issue justifies
> implementing and maintaining such a fix.  But I do think it's better to
> have a limited fix known to work with the current code base than to
> leave such a silly bug in Emacs.

From where I stand, it is not a bug, and certainly isn't silly.

Don't we have anything better to do to improve Emacs?

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