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bug#36250: [PATCH] Improve a bit frame-resize-pixelwise documentation


From: Konstantin Kharlamov
Subject: bug#36250: [PATCH] Improve a bit frame-resize-pixelwise documentation
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:27:14 +0300



В Ср, июн 19, 2019 at 19:16, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> написал:
 From: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 23:35:02 +0300

 * src/frame.c (syms_of_frame): remove from the second paragraph bits
 of text that duplicate the first paragraph, and mention that the
 variable needs to be set before a frame started.

I don't see why you needed to remove part of the text.  It isn't a
repetition: the first sentence talks about frames in general, the
second only about the initial frame.  The bit about the init file is
only relevant to the latter.

The specific part of text being removed sounds as"in order to set the size of a frame in pixels, ", which explains what happens when variable is non-nil.

However, if you read both of two paragraphs of documentation, you may find that the 1st paragraph already explains the technical details behind the variable, and the "non-nil" word in particular appears twice.

At that point, if reader came to 2nd paragraph, they probably know what Emacs does when variable is non-nil; or at least they know where to look that up. So, repeating that part again does nothing aside of wasting one's mental resources used to parse the sentence.







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