[systemd-devel] Patch to fix hint message

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Mon Feb 3 15:40:11 PST 2014


On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 04:24:02PM -0500, Jason St. John wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2014 1:10 PM, "Barry.Scott at onelan.com" <barry.scott at onelan.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > The use of the ... (ellipsis) is to "elide" text.
> > Ellipsized is not in the dictionary.
In principle we can and do make up words quite often. But I agree
that 'to ellipsize' is not particalarly elegant, and that 'to elide'
is not used in any other context, so it should be unambiguous.

> > If you are willing to take this fix I could develop a patch to fix the
> > variables used in the code as well.
Please do, let's do it all in one step.

Zbyszek


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