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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: gregory@heytings.org, rpluim@gmail.com, stefankangas@gmail.com,
>       emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:14:07 -0400
> 
> We have made overall style changes many times in GNU manuals.  To do
> so for the whole Emacs Manual would be a big job, so we might not
> decide to do it, but it's not unreasonable in principle.

Such stylistic changes are at times a risky business: people don't
always understand the fine points of what the author wanted to express
or emphasize, and make changes for the worse.  This actually happened
in the past, and is not always easy to catch in time.  This is
exacerbated by the fact that the number of people we have who are both
native English speakers and are willing to invest a significant
portion of their free time in working on our documentation -- that
number is very small.

For this reason, my advice is to avoid stylistic changes, or at least
ask before making them.  It should be low priority anyway, since most
of our documentation problems are not of stylistic nature.