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Re: feature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos an


From: Robert Pluim
Subject: Re: feature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistenciesfeature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistencies
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:35:30 +0200

>>>>> On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:38:28 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    Eli> I don't understand many of these changes.  They seem to be personal
    Eli> stylistic preferences, in which case please revert them: there's
    Eli> nothing wrong with alternative stylistic preferences.

Most of them are preferences, but this one:

    >> -on.  @xref{Eglot and Buffers}, for more details of what does Eglot
    >> -management of a buffer entail.
    >> +on.  @xref{Eglot and Buffers}, for more details of what Eglot
    >> +management of a buffer entails.

The original is not wrong, it just scans somewhat awkwardly.

    >> -languages which are only supported by the @code{etags} backend.
    >> +languages that are only supported by the @code{etags} backend.

    Eli> And this one?  What's wrong with using "which" in that case?

Nothing, except that there are some grammarians who believe that there
is an iron-clad infallible rule which governs when to use 'which'
versus 'that', which most of us donʼt care about [1] (and Iʼve yet to
see an example where using the 'wrong' one was unclear).

Robert

Footnotes:
[1]  Please nobody try to explain this rule. Itʼs been done, it
     doesnʼt need to be done again.

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