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bug#67639: Description of the variable message-mail-user-agent in Emacs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#67639: Description of the variable message-mail-user-agent in Emacs 29.1 |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:33:16 +0200 |
merge 67639 67638
close 67638
thanks
> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 23:27:37 +0000
> From: rameiko87@posteo.net
>
> I would appreciate clarifying this variable.
>
> I have difficulties understanding what the variable
> message-mail-user-agent means and what the options mean. The description
> for this variable doesn't help:
>
> > Like ‘mail-user-agent’.
> I don't know what this sentence means.
>
> > Except if it is nil, use Gnus native MUA; if it is t, use
> > ‘mail-user-agent’.
> Please remove Except from the beginning of the sentence, because
> non-native English speakers like myself think that "Except if it is nil"
> means "Whenever not nil". It may be correct, but it's confusing to some
> people. Perhaps the confusion arises because there's a full stop rather
> than a comma.
>
> If the except links the sentence to the one above, then why write "if it
> is t, use ‘mail-user-agent’ ", which is a repetition at this point? Now
> it looks from the description like there should be two options, but
> instead there's five.
>
> I'm totally at loss!
This is an exact duplicate of bug#67638, so I'm now closing both as
fixed.