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Re: doc string of `local-variable-if-set-p'


From: Masatake YAMATO
Subject: Re: doc string of `local-variable-if-set-p'
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:22:54 +0900 (JST)

> Most likely, it's the new fontification that struck you.
> The original docstring is:
> 
>    Non-nil if VARIABLE will be local in buffer BUFFER if it is set there.
>    BUFFER defaults to the current buffer.
> 
> but recently the code tries to mangle it to use italics instead of allcaps
> for identifiers.  Most likely in your case the italics is lost somewhere.
> 
> Note also how even if the italics was kept the mangling has created an
> ugliness in the second sentence: it starts with a lowercase.

I am not talking about fontification nor upper/lower case.
I'm talking about English. 

(1) Non-nil if VARIABLE will be local in buffer BUFFER if it is set there.
    BUFFER defaults to the current buffer. 

I thought this should be

(2) Non-nil if VARIABLE will be local in buffer BUFFER *and* if it is set there.
    BUFFER defaults to the current buffer. 

or 

(3) Non-nil if VARIABLE will be local in buffer BUFFER and if VARIABLE is set 
in BUFFER.
    BUFFER defaults to the current buffer. 

If you think (1) is ok as English, please ignore me; and I'll go back
to an English class room in a junior high school.




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