Re: Introducing thread-safe Tramp

[Filipp Gunbin]

On 07/08/2018 16:20 +0200, Michael Albinus wrote:

>> lisp/simple.el:
>>
>> +(defvar universal-async-argument nil
>> +  "Non-nil indicates a command to run asynchronously when called 
>> interactively.
>>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>                       that a command should?
>
> Not "should". It is just a hint that a user wishes the next command to
> run asynchronously. This could be prefixed for *every* command; whether
> that command cares about the indication is up to the command itself.
>
> If you mean just better English - OK. But the first sentence of a
> docstring must fit into one line.

This was more about English, yes.  The original sentence read as the
setting indicated *a command*, while it actually indicates *that a
command run asynchronously*.

Thanks.