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Re: master 55eabe96c9: ; Improve manual for Tramp kubernetes method


From: Robert Pluim
Subject: Re: master 55eabe96c9: ; Improve manual for Tramp kubernetes method
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:48:42 +0200

>>>>> On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 22:43:07 +0700, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> 
>>>>> said:

    Yuri> On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 21:51, Michael Albinus 
<michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
    Yuri> +    […] It should
    Yuri> +    return a string which is used to check, whether the
    Yuri> +    configuration of the remote host has been changed (which
    Yuri> +    would require to flush the cache data).

    >> > Comma not needed?
    >> 
    >> Don't know. In the Tramp sources, both "check, whether" and "check
    >> whether" is used, so it is inconsistent at all :-) Let's keep it, until
    >> somebody teaches me to change it this way or the other in all places.

    Yuri> “whether the configuration <…> has been changed” is a subordinate (aka
    Yuri> dependent) clause. In English, those are separated with a comma only
    Yuri> when coming before the main clause. Here, it comes after the main
    Yuri> clause, so a comma looks like a Germanism.

True, but Iʼm more concerned about the "require to flush" bit, which
should be "require flushing" :-)


Robert
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