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


From: Eli Zaretskii
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 19:20:51 +0300

> From: Rudolf Adamkovič <salutis@me.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:11:57 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > They [the changes] seem to be personal stylistic preferences, in which
> > case please revert them: there's nothing wrong with alternative
> > stylistic preferences.
> 
> Yes, there is nothing "wrong" with the text, but style matters greatly
> in writing, and the new version reads better.

Not to me.  And we shouldn't argue about this, because that's what
personal stylistic preferences are about: they are personal.

> Thus, as a reader, and also a non-native speaker, I prefer the
> patched version.

As a person who wrote the original text, I prefer that version.

> For instance, "of what does Eglot management of a buffer entail" makes
> me re-parse the sentence, whereas "of what Eglot management of a buffer
> entails" reads naturally.

I didn't revert that part.



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