From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Your commit 7409a79 Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:09:28 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87bnndjd07.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83h9x917il.fsf@gnu.org> <85ppbvdqqu.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <85bnnecwnt.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418123404 31189 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 11:10:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 11:10:04 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 12:09:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyIg0-0001O4-W6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:09:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39097 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyIg0-0004zw-Bi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 06:09:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51237) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyIfs-0004z2-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 06:09:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyIfm-0007mK-55 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 06:09:47 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54633) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyIfl-0007mG-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 06:09:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyIfj-0001FS-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:09:39 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f4aa58.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.170.88]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:09:39 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f4aa58.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:09:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f4aa58.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9ungh8sIokqajdQuIE1jGtuPYq0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179546 Archived-At: Richard Stallman 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