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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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      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-23 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20211019121305.21211.34959@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [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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