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bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v.".
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v.". |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:48:41 +0300 |
> From: John Williams <jrw@pobox.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:22:50 -0700
>
> While it may seem strange to replace an English phrase with a
> relatively obscure Latin abbreviation, there are a number of
> advantages. As someone whose first language is English, I've never
> seen "which see" used anywhere else the way it is in Emacs. It looks
> totally ungrammatical to me, and I found it quite confusing when I
> first encountered it. It's a difficult phrase to search for because
> it's formed from such common words. OTOH, q.v. is easily searchable,
> it has a well-defined meaning, and the conventional way to use it
> serves as a drop-in replacement for the way "which see" is used in
> Emacs.
Thanks, but we've discussed similar ideas in the past, and eventually
decided not to install such changes, certainly not summarily replacing
every "which see" with a "q.v.".
The absolute majority of your proposed changes are in the doc strings,
where we already have a direct link to the documentation of a symbol
whose name precedes "which see". So whether the reader understands
that or doesn't, the link is already there to click on, and no harm is
done by a relatively rare use of this phrase.
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., John Williams, 2017/10/11
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Nick Helm, 2017/10/11
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v.".,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Glenn Morris, 2017/10/14
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., João Távora, 2017/10/14
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., John Williams, 2017/10/14
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Drew Adams, 2017/10/15
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Richard Stallman, 2017/10/15
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Alan Third, 2017/10/16
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Eli Zaretskii, 2017/10/14
bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Richard Stallman, 2017/10/12