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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: 32733@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32733: 26; (dired-x) `Shell Command Guessing' typo
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:57:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhwfm08d.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ffb002f-5cb1-40c2-9795-42115e8298fb@default>

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> [[[ 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 is replaced by the file name.
>
> How about putting that in the active voice?

I guess thatʼs possible, but it would make that sentence be very
different in tone from the surrounding text.

Robert





  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-18 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-14  4:27 bug#32733: 26; (dired-x) `Shell Command Guessing' typo Drew Adams
2018-09-14  7:28 ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-14 13:39   ` Drew Adams
2018-09-14 14:01     ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-15  0:47     ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-18 12:57       ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2018-09-18 13:21         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 13:36           ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-18 14:19             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-19  3:41           ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-19  3:36         ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-19  7:09           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-20  1:50             ` Richard Stallman

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