From: <zeurkous@volny.cz>
To: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
Cc: <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: RE: revised patch: zshmisc(1) clarify non-successful exit statuses
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 22:57:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210423225729.6E79AE30@volny.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fbc952c6-c458-498c-ab38-8c954296a0fc@www.fastmail.com>
"Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021, at 4:29 PM, zeurkous@volny.cz wrote:
>> YMMV -- especially the word "non-script" is awkward to me.
>
> That final clause is admittedly difficult to express cleanly, and
> I'm not completely pleased with my result. But "is not a script
> and in a format unrecognized by the operating system" is ungrammatical
> and shouldn't be committed as is.
"Ungrammatical" is a term me doesn't often see (or hear). It seems
subjective.
> Perhaps:
>
> "The executable file has insufficient permissions, is a directory
> or special file, or is not a script and is in a format unrecognized
> by the operating system."
Sure, reads fine to me.
>> But that's bikeshedding...
>
> I don't consider grammar correction to be bikeshedding.
Of course not. Grammar (and language in general) is however not as exact
a matter as many would take it to be. Hence "YMMV", too.
--zeurkous.
--
Friggin' Machines!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-23 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-11 12:15 zeurkous
2021-04-13 15:52 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-13 18:03 ` zeurkous
2021-04-14 11:03 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-14 11:40 ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 12:18 ` revised " zeurkous
2021-04-23 16:07 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-23 16:15 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-23 20:25 ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 20:14 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-04-23 20:29 ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 20:39 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-04-23 20:57 ` zeurkous [this message]
2021-04-23 20:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-23 21:03 ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 21:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-23 21:18 ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 22:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-26 16:25 ` zeurkous
2021-04-29 14:20 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-05-09 19:04 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-05-31 1:09 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-05-31 4:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-05-31 4:37 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-06-30 17:51 ` zeurkous
2021-06-30 22:12 ` Lawrence Velázquez
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