From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Sieger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice? Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:16:13 -0500 Message-ID: <87aakee8bm.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4ca8659e$0$50453$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <322eca01-3bf5-4078-9439-57ba9503afc6@k1g2000prl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291995466 16493 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 15:37:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:37:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 16:37:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PR52T-0002JB-J9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:37:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50899 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PR52S-0000Yh-TX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:37:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49072 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQrau-00006K-VP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:16:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQrat-0002qV-ND for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:16:20 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37238) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQrat-0002qA-HJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:16:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQrar-0004PK-2q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:16:17 +0100 Original-Received: from pool-162-84-237-210.ny5030.east.verizon.net ([162.84.237.210]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:16:17 +0100 Original-Received: from sean.sieger by pool-162-84-237-210.ny5030.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:16:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-162-84-237-210.ny5030.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5OwzTgj3WLxuz2ynXn2x+LyvoUQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77391 Archived-At: There is no royal road to writing, like Math. To write better, read more. Read, re-read, re-re-read, and read better what you've written (and rewritten...). Right? I always thought `reading is miswriting and writing is misreading' instructive.