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Re: delete-other-frames
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: delete-other-frames |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Aug 2016 10:45:59 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 23:31:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> 2. I think Eli was talking about something different, but
> related: the fact that in Emacs doc the name of a parameter
> is often chosen to be a type name, and a convention is to
> omit the type noun to which the restrictive appositive
> applies and let the parameter name stand alone.
Yes, that's what was on my mind.
> IOW, if the name of the individual echoes the name of the
> type then we can get by with just the individual name.
>
> Example:
>
> Just "copy FILE to DIRECTORY", instead of "copy file FILE
> to directory DIRECTORY" (or the even heavier "copy the
> file FILE to the directory DIRECTORY).
>
> And if there are multiple individuals of the same type
> then we can use different names for them that each echo
> the type name: "copy FILE1 and FILE2 to DIRECTORY".
>
> This is a kind of abbreviation, and it is fine too.
Exactly.
Thanks.
- Re: delete-other-frames, (continued)
- Re: delete-other-frames, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/23
- Re: delete-other-frames, martin rudalics, 2016/08/24
- Re: delete-other-frames, martin rudalics, 2016/08/25
- Re: delete-other-frames, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/25
- Re: delete-other-frames, Richard Stallman, 2016/08/26
- RE: delete-other-frames, Drew Adams, 2016/08/27
- Re: delete-other-frames,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: delete-other-frames, Richard Stallman, 2016/08/27
- RE: delete-other-frames, Drew Adams, 2016/08/27
- Re: delete-other-frames, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/27