From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:24:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: add exec command to launch a shell command
Message-ID: <AANLkTinF51h8s8Q8dpyY7aZioenWLpOY4qVLGusN2fOX@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqfwytnh0m.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Ęvar Arnfjörš Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> +in `$SHELL`, or the default shell if `$SHELL` is not set), so you can
>>> +use usual shell commands like "cd". The command is run from the
>>
>> I think that needs a definite article: ".. use the usual ..".
>
> I don't think so, especially with a plural "commands" after.
> Googlefight agrees with me ("use the usual commands" => 350 results,
> "use usual commands" => 4900), but that's not a proof.

Being grammatically correct doesn't automatically make a sentence
good. "Use ususal" is a bit of a tongue-twister, so I'd rewrite that
to "use normal" for that purpose alone.

But I'm not a native English speaker, and the natives might disagree with me.