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Re: directory search fails!
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: directory search fails! |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:59:58 -0400 |
> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:02:11 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> Reply-To: address@hidden
>
> > Besides you wrote locate is a verb equivalent to "to find", why you
> > did not use 'find' instead of 'locate'?
>
> For the same reason I didn't use any of the other synonyms of "find".
No, he has a point here. Using different, though synonym, words for
the same entity runs the risk of confusing the reader. You will see
that I significantly reduced the number of synonyms in the
description, and instead made a point of using the same wording over
and over again, precisely for that reason: to make it easier for the
reader to connect the dots.
> > If make only does directory search on the target, why the manual says:
> > "section '4.4 Searching Directories for Prerequisites'?
>
> I don't know; you'll have to ask Richard or Roland. Probably they, like
> Eli, felt that it was simpler to explain if it was discussed in terms of
> prerequisites instead of targets.
Actually, I used prerequisites because most of the description already
did to begin with. All I did was throw away the few instances of
"target".
- Re: directory search fails!, (continued)
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- Re: directory search fails!, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/25
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- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/26
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- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/27
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- RE: directory search fails!, David Ferguson, 2010/09/28
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- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/26
- Re: directory search fails!, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/26
- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/26
- Re: directory search fails!, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/26