GNU bug report logs - #17993
24.4.50; doc string of `hi-lock-file-patterns-prefix'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:55:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.4.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4.50; doc string of `hi-lock-file-patterns-prefix'
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:39:19 -0700 (PDT)

Doc string:

  Search target for finding hi-lock patterns at top of file.

This is a variable.  The description is confusing/unclear, because
"Search" is too easily parsed as a verb (as opposed to parsing "Search
target" as a noun phrase: the target of a search).

And explain: (a) what such a pattern is, (b) what "top of file" means,
and (c) what search is involved.



In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2014-06-28 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 117431 rgm <at> gnu.org-20140628015517-eku6hj8mpgcvfnso
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/snapshot/trunk
 --enable-checking=yes,glyphs 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3'
 LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib 'CPPFLAGS=-DGC_MCHECK=1
 -Ic:/Devel/emacs/include''
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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 17993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17993: 24.4.50; doc string of `hi-lock-file-patterns-prefix'
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 22:35:35 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Doc string:
>
>   Search target for finding hi-lock patterns at top of file.
>
> This is a variable.  The description is confusing/unclear, because
> "Search" is too easily parsed as a verb (as opposed to parsing "Search
> target" as a noun phrase: the target of a search).

I agree, and I've now changed the doc string for Emacs 27.

-- 
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Added tag(s) fixed. Request was from Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 03 Aug 2019 20:36:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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