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Re: Your commit 7409a79
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Your commit 7409a79 |
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Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:09:28 +0100 |
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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 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
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