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From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Documentation for expiry target in group customize
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:51:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fzotb41f.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84y92ls3gw.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> The sentence "Overrides `nnmail-expiry-target', which see." is
> shorthand for "Overrides `nnmail-expiry-target'.  See
> `nnmail-expiry-target' for more information.".
>
> I think it's encyclopedia-speak or dictionary-speak which are wont to
> use somewhat strange constructions in the interest of brevity.

It's also often written as »q.v.« (quod vide):

     "Overrides `nnmail-expiry-target' (q.v.)"



  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-08 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-07 10:59 Niklas Morberg
2003-04-07 14:27 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-08  7:12   ` Niklas Morberg
2003-04-08 10:11     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-08 11:51       ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-04-08 14:09         ` Mike Woolley
2003-04-09 16:55           ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-04-12 21:42             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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