From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#32733: 26; (dired-x) `Shell Command Guessing' typo Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:41:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8ffb002f-5cb1-40c2-9795-42115e8298fb@default> <878t44pmg9.fsf@gmail.com> <87zhwfm08d.fsf@gmail.com> <83pnxbeyb3.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1537328743 24299 195.159.176.226 (19 Sep 2018 03:45:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 03:45:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, 32733@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 19 05:45:39 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g2TQo-0006Dz-Sp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 05:45:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43530 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g2TSv-0002r7-H0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42440) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g2TNM-0005yO-Eu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:42:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g2TNL-0006ai-Kk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:40732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g2TNL-0006aP-DQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g2TNL-0008IF-Bu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:42:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 03:42:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 32733 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: fixed Original-Received: via spool by 32733-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B32733.153732850231825 (code B ref 32733); Wed, 19 Sep 2018 03:42:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 32733) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Sep 2018 03:41:42 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44988 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g2TN0-0008HE-1U for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:41:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49226) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g2TMx-0008Ga-1b for 32733@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g2TMr-0005xv-2F for 32733@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:41:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60962) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g2TMp-0005vv-Kk; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:41:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g2TMp-0007SV-8d; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:41:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83pnxbeyb3.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:21:20 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:150436 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > A @samp{*} in the shell command stands for the file name that > matched the regexp. That's an improvement. It is a little easier to read than the passive sentence, a little clearer. Once in a while there is a good reason to use passive voice. Most of the time, replacing it with active voice makes it a little clearer; sometimes much clearer. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)