From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-28 e55e2d4: ; * etc/NEWS: Minor copyedit about 'repeat-mode'.
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 19:25:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1meQOl-0003Fq-RD@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnm842ui.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:49:17 +0300)
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> Or more precisely: "The default key binding is used".
Could we make it active voice?
> next-error matches. Any other key exits transient mode and then
> executes normally.
We should always use active voice, except when that's hard to do
for some reason.
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[not found] ` <20211019121307.A4A79209AA@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2021-10-19 13:09 ` emacs-28 e55e2d4: ; * etc/NEWS: Minor copyedit about 'repeat-mode' Michael Albinus
2021-10-19 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-19 16:52 ` Michael Albinus
2021-10-19 19:04 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-19 19:59 ` Michael Albinus
2021-10-20 6:49 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-20 7:22 ` Michael Albinus
2021-10-23 23:25 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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