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bug#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents'


From: Philipp
Subject: bug#47416: Strange sentence in documentation of 'insert-file-contents'
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:32:28 +0100


> Am 26.03.2021 um 19:12 schrieb Tim Lee <progscriptclone@gmail.com>:
> 
> The last paragraph/sentence in the documentation of 'insert-file-contents' is:
> 
>> In addition, this function decodes the inserted text from known formats
>> by calling `format-decode', which see.
> 
> It looks like there is something wrong about this sentence.
> 
> "... which see." — See what?

Apparently this is correct English.  "... X, which see" means roughly "To find 
out more, look up X."




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