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24.0.91; doc string of `with-selected-frame'

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 9980 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9980: 24.0.91; doc string of `with-selected-frame'
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:58:37 +0100

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> 1. The doc string is incomplete.  You need to do the same kind of thing you
> did for `with-selected-window' for this macro as well.

Ok; fixed.

> 2. The grammar of this sentence is anyway incorrect: "This macro neither
> changes the order of recently selected windows nor the buffer list."  It
> should say something like, "This macro changes the order of neither the
> recently selected windows nor the buffers in the buffer list."
>
> IOW, "neither changes X nor" requires another verb: "neither changes X
> nor throws up on Y."  What you are looking for is "changes neither X nor
> Y."

I've adapted your suggestion.

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