[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Use normal English elide in place of ellipsize

[Jason St. John]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Barry Scott <barry.scott at onelan.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue 04 Feb 2014 16:15:52 Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> If we do want to describe the action taken rather than the effect, then
>> I would use the word "truncate" here, rather than elide as this is
>> really what happens now as implemented.
>
> But the output is not truncated. Here is example from my system:
>
> home-build\x2dvm-de...onelan\x2df16\x2d5-home-bscott.mount loaded active
> mounted   /home/build-vm/dev64-onelan-f16-5/home/bscott
>
> The middle has been removed, not the end.
>
> Barry
>
>

What about using "shortened" or "omitted"? Both of those words are
much more common than "elided".

Jason