From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Your commit 7409a79
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:09:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnndjd07.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1XyIWk-00023u-6a@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> [Present tense]
> > Duh, I can't find it either, even though I'm absolutely positively
> > certain I've seen it (and have been pointed to it) in the past.
>
> Strange, I also remember writing about this and I don't know where it
> was.
M-x (info "(elisp) Documentation Tips")
• Write documentation strings in the active voice, not the passive,
and in the present tense, not the future. For instance, use
“Return a list containing A and B.” instead of “A list containing A
and B will be returned.”
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-09 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-06 8:56 Your commit 7409a79 Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-06 10:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-12-06 10:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-06 10:32 ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-06 15:29 ` Yuri Khan
2014-12-06 23:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-06 16:14 ` Tom
2014-12-06 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-06 22:43 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-06 22:33 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-07 3:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-07 22:39 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-08 1:57 ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-08 2:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-08 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 23:38 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-08 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 18:24 ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-08 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 17:32 ` John Yates
2014-12-08 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 18:14 ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-08 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 18:54 ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-08 19:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-08 18:54 ` John Yates
2014-12-08 23:27 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-09 0:51 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-12-09 8:08 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-09 9:36 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-12-09 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-10 9:26 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-10 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-10 17:04 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-10 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-10 19:20 ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-07 5:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-06 22:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-07 22:44 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-07 23:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-08 9:34 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-08 10:22 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-12-08 14:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-08 23:32 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-09 11:00 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-09 11:09 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-12-10 8:24 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-10 17:05 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-10 19:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-08 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 23:33 ` Stephen Leake
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