From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 23746@debbugs.gnu.org
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 19:58:27 +0200
On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 16:21:19 -0400 Noam Postavsky
<npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
As a native English speaker, "your Lisp program may wish telling the
process" sounds obviously incorrect (though I'm not sure how to
explain why in terms of grammatical rules). Whereas, "your Lisp
program may wish to tell the process" is correct.
That's one argument for this change; another is the statistical one
based on the existing Emacs documentation:
steve@rosalinde:/data/steve/git/emacs> grep -r " wish to " doc/ | wc -l
196
steve@rosalinde:/data/steve/git/emacs> grep -r " wish [a-z]*ing " doc/
doc/lispref/processes.texi:may wish telling the process the dimensions
Eli, does this persuade you to accept this change too?