Re: delete-other-frames

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 23:31:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 2. I think Eli was talking about something different, but
> related: the fact that in Emacs doc the name of a parameter
> is often chosen to be a type name, and a convention is to
> omit the type noun to which the restrictive appositive
> applies and let the parameter name stand alone.

Yes, that's what was on my mind.

> IOW, if the name of the individual echoes the name of the
> type then we can get by with just the individual name.
> 
> Example:
> 
> Just "copy FILE to DIRECTORY", instead of "copy file FILE
> to directory DIRECTORY" (or the even heavier "copy the
> file FILE to the directory DIRECTORY).
> 
> And if there are multiple individuals of the same type
> then we can use different names for them that each echo
> the type name: "copy FILE1 and FILE2 to DIRECTORY".
> 
> This is a kind of abbreviation, and it is fine too.

Exactly.

Thanks.