Re: bug#6877: Documentation: "till" vs "until" in docstrings

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:45:03 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote: 

>> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:10:02 -0400
>> From: MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com>
>> Cc: 
>> 
>> Note, following list of files/symbols/strings identify visible
>> occurrences (i.e not inside a comment) where " till " appears in the
>> Emacs sources and would be better suited wit the use of until:

EZ> Quite a few of them could become longer than one line if "till" is
EZ> replaced by "until".  (They are already too long, IMO.)  Emacs coding
EZ> guidelines mandate that the short description fit on a single line.

I think that can be resolved by judicious editing.  Generally we should
not contort the language to save a character; let's fix the long lines
instead of using "till."  I count 228 ocurrences in the Emacs source (67
in the source according to `ack') and will fix them[1] if you agree.

Ted

[1] when I get a round tuit, of course