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Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy'
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Michael Albinus |
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Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy' |
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Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:54:26 +0100 |
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Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi, Eli.
Hi Eli, Alan,
>> > > REUSE-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS non-nil means return the name of an existing
>> > > local copy of FILE, if FILE's file attributes didn't change since
>> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> > > the last copy operation.
>
>> > "haven't changed", here, since it's expressing a current state. "didn't
>> > change" would be appropriate for referring to a past event.
>
>> It _is_ a past event, by the time this function is called.
>
> Yes, but it is that event's effect on the present which makes the
> "present perfect" the right tense.
>
> "haven't changed" is the correct tense here. Really it is.
Thanks for improving the docstring! I'm not a native speaker, so it is
always helpful for me.
Best regards, Michael.
- Optional argument for `file-local-copy', Michael Albinus, 2014/11/29
- Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/29
- Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy', Alan Mackenzie, 2014/11/29
- Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/29
- Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy', Alan Mackenzie, 2014/11/29
- Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy', Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2014/11/29
- Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy', Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/30
- Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy', Michael Albinus, 2014/11/30
- Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy', Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/30
- Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy', Michael Albinus, 2014/11/30
- Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy',
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