From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding M-x iwconfig to net-utils.el
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:46:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hoprv5zd69.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1JO2kA-0000Io-P6@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman wrote:
> PS. It's funny how people often switch to the past tense when writing
> certain ChangeLog entries (eg: "rename", "move").
>
> I have always used "deleted" and "renamed", past tense.
I could have sworn there was a GNU or Emacs standard that said "write
changelog entries in the present tense", but now that I look I can't
find it. :(
All I can find is lispref/tips.texi saying to write doc-strings in the
present tense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-10 3:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-07 13:55 Adding M-x iwconfig to net-utils.el Yoni Rabkin
2008-02-08 2:43 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-08 4:21 ` Yoni Rabkin
2008-02-08 4:27 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-08 4:42 ` Yoni Rabkin
2008-02-08 18:48 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-09 1:34 ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-09 1:43 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-09 2:19 ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-09 2:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-09 2:42 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-09 3:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-09 15:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-10 3:20 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-10 3:46 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2008-02-12 0:01 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-02-10 9:19 ` David Kastrup
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