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From: Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com>
Subject: Re: Documentation for expiry target in group customize
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 09:12:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ullyl8ntm.fsf@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <843ckul6wm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann's?= message of "Mon, 07 Apr 2003 16:27:21 +0200")

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

> Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com> writes:
>
>>   Overrides `nnmail-expiry-target', which see.
>>
>> I might be daft, but I can't make sense of that last
>> sentence. Is it correct?
>
> When you customize the group, you set the group parameters.  The
> variable nnmail-expiry-target takes effect for all groups that don't
> have such a parameter.  Type C-h v nnmail-expiry-target RET for the
> documentation of that variable.

I understand what the parameter does, it's just that I can't
make sense of the sentence in the documentation. What does
"which see" mean? English is not my native language, but I
speak it well (or so I thought :).

> (Isn't the variable name clickable?)

Sure.

Niklas




  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-08  7:12 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 [this message]
2003-04-08 10:11     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-08 11:51       ` Jesper Harder
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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