On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM, T.F. Torrey <tftor...@tftorrey.com> wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:57:35 +0530
>> Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Minor docstring bug:
>> org-footnote-goto-previous-reference
>> From: Noorul Islam <noo...@noorul.com>
>> To: rpgold...@sift.info
>> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2)
>> Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
>> Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+tftorrey=tftorrey....@gnu.org
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Robert Goldman <rpgold...@sift.info> wrote:
>> > The docstring for the command "org-footnote-goto-previous-reference" is
>> >
>> > Find the next previous of the footnote with label LABEL.
>> >
>> > ...which I can't actually parse.
>> >
>> > "Find the (immediately) previous reference to the footnote with label
>> > LABEL."
>> >
>> > Is that better?
>> >
>>
>> Patch is attached. I modified it a bit.
>
> Noorul,
>
> Actually, your modification makes it grammatically incorrect. The word
> "immediately" is to modify the adjective "previous", and in English, an
> adjective needs to be modified by an adverb. So, "immediately previous"
> would be correct, but "immediate previous" is not.
>
> Trying to be helpful, not merely nit-picking,
I can understand. Attached is the modified patch.
Thanks and Regards
Noorul
diff --git a/lisp/org-footnote.el b/lisp/org-footnote.el
index 36fcfb2..1ce1815 100644
--- a/lisp/org-footnote.el
+++ b/lisp/org-footnote.el
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ with start and label of the footnote if there is a
definition at point."
(message "Edit definition and go back with `C-c &' or, if unique, with
`C-c C-c'."))))
(defun org-footnote-goto-previous-reference (label)
- "Find the next previous of the footnote with label LABEL."
+ "Find the immediately previous reference of the footnote with label LABEL."
(interactive "sLabel: ")
(org-mark-ring-push)
(setq label (org-footnote-normalize-label label))
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