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Re: `set-variable' should use :set
From: |
Juanma Barranquero |
Subject: |
Re: `set-variable' should use :set |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:42:25 +0200 |
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 15:40, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
> The first of those URLs claims that as a verb it is (only) transitive ("You
> obsoleted the bike"). The second of those claims that as a verb it is (only)
> intransitive ("You obsoleted, but the bike obsoleted first").
First one is more modern.
> And as I said (quite earnestly), you _can_ verb any noun. There is no
> Academie
> Anglaise[*]; we take a different view of language (and dictionaries).
I know.
> Most important is clarity, and I find "However, this feature is largely
> obsoleted by `defcustom'" quite clear as far as it goes (it doesn't say why or
> how).
I find it quite clear too.
Juanma
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, (continued)
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Miles Bader, 2010/10/21
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Miles Bader, 2010/10/21
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Drew Adams, 2010/10/21
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/10/21
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Drew Adams, 2010/10/22
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/10/22
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, David Kastrup, 2010/10/22
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Juanma Barranquero, 2010/10/22
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Drew Adams, 2010/10/22
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, David Kastrup, 2010/10/22
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set,
Juanma Barranquero <=
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/10/23
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Drew Adams, 2010/10/23
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Juanma Barranquero, 2010/10/23
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Glenn Morris, 2010/10/23
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Jambunathan K, 2010/10/23
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Chong Yidong, 2010/10/24
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Stefan Monnier, 2010/10/22
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Drew Adams, 2010/10/22
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/22
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/22