From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: 32733@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32733: 26; (dired-x) `Shell Command Guessing' typo
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:36:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1g2TI2-0006Q6-3K@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhwfm08d.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:57:54 +0200)
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> > How about putting that in the active voice?
> I guess thatʼs possible, but it would make that sentence be very
> different in tone from the surrounding text.
If the surrounding text uses passive voice, please try rewriting
that text to use active voice. That is one of our
guidelines for writing. See GNU Manuals in the GNU Coding Standards.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-19 3:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-14 4:27 bug#32733: 26; (dired-x) `Shell Command Guessing' typo Drew Adams
2018-09-14 7:28 ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-14 13:39 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-14 14:01 ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-15 0:47 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-18 12:57 ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-18 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 13:36 ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-18 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-19 3:41 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-19 3:36 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-09-19 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-20 1:50 ` Richard Stallman
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