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bug#61784: 30.0.50; "Byte compile the file containing the current buffer
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#61784: 30.0.50; "Byte compile the file containing the current buffer." |
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Sat, 25 Feb 2023 15:53:02 +0200 |
> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:22:41 +0100
>
> The docstring of the function emacs-lisp-byte-compile ("Byte compile the
> file containing the current buffer.") sounds infelicitous; how about
> changing it to "Byte compile the file visited by the current buffer."?
Thanks, I fixed this in a slightly different way on the emacs-29
branch.
> If that's rejected as passive, an alternative is "Byte compile the file
> the current buffer is visiting.", though that sounds more awkward to me
> than "visited by" (note "the file visited by the current buffer" occurs
> several times in the Emacs and Elisp manuals, and I have found no other
> use of (variants of) "file containing the current buffer" in the Emacs
> sources).
My change avoids the passive voice.
Closing.