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bug#6877: Documentation: "till" vs "until" in docstrings


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#6877: Documentation: "till" vs "until" in docstrings
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:34:01 -0500

> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@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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