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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
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> From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:24:19 +1200
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> Contributing to Emacs works differently.

Yep.

>  > "No arguments required" doesn't make much sense as an error message; it
>  > suggests that no arguments are necessary, but not that any arguments
>  > are invalid.  But I see there are two uses of it already, and none of
>  > any other format for functions which take no arguements.  So the code
>  > parts of the patch are belatedly OK...
> 
> Where possible, I just copy what is already there.

That is not always a good idea.  Sometimes it is better to modify old
code/docs, instead of proliferating past blunders in the name of
consistency.