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From: Noorul Islam <noorul@noorul.com>
To: "T.F. Torrey" <tftorrey@tftorrey.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, rpgoldman@sift.info
Subject: Re: Minor docstring bug: org-footnote-goto-previous-reference
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:10:54 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=43-GAS0bSb9W84MXyUCVokuU8Kimes1Aa+qFi@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1P9uyF-0004mf-2l@lapcat>

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On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM, T.F. Torrey <tftorrey@tftorrey.com> wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:57:35 +0530
>> Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Minor docstring bug:
>>       org-footnote-goto-previous-reference
>> From: Noorul Islam <noorul@noorul.com>
>> To: rpgoldman@sift.info
>> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2)
>> Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
>> Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+tftorrey=tftorrey.com@gnu.org
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> wrote:
>> > The docstring for the command "org-footnote-goto-previous-reference" is
>> >
>> >   Find the next previous of the footnote with label LABEL.
>> >
>> > ...which I can't actually parse.
>> >
>> > "Find the (immediately) previous reference to the footnote with label
>> > LABEL."
>> >
>> > Is that better?
>> >
>>
>> Patch is attached. I modified it a bit.
>
> Noorul,
>
> Actually, your modification makes it grammatically incorrect. The word
> "immediately" is to modify the adjective "previous", and in English, an
> adjective needs to be modified by an adverb. So, "immediately previous"
> would be correct, but "immediate previous" is not.
>
> Trying to be helpful, not merely nit-picking,

I can understand. Attached is the modified patch.

Thanks and Regards
Noorul

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diff --git a/lisp/org-footnote.el b/lisp/org-footnote.el
index 36fcfb2..1ce1815 100644
--- a/lisp/org-footnote.el
+++ b/lisp/org-footnote.el
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ with start and label of the footnote if there is a definition at point."
       (message "Edit definition and go back with `C-c &' or, if unique, with `C-c C-c'."))))
 
 (defun org-footnote-goto-previous-reference (label)
-  "Find the next previous of the footnote with label LABEL."
+  "Find the immediately previous reference of the footnote with label LABEL."
   (interactive "sLabel: ")
   (org-mark-ring-push)
   (setq label (org-footnote-normalize-label label))

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-24  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-23 23:30 Minor docstring bug: org-footnote-goto-previous-reference Robert Goldman
2010-10-24  3:27 ` Noorul Islam
2010-10-24  7:26   ` T.F. Torrey
2010-10-24  7:40     ` Noorul Islam [this message]

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