RE: revised patch: zshmisc(1) clarify non-successful exit statuses

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"Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021, at 4:29 PM, zeurkous@xxxxxxxx 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.

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