Subject: bug#38660: ange-ftp.el grammar

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:28:14 +0100

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]> writes:

> /usr/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/net/ange-ftp.el.gz grammar problem:
>
> ;; For example: if find-file is given a filename of:
> ;;
> ;;   /ange@anorman:/tmp/notes
> ;;
> ;; then ange-ftp spawns an FTP process, connect to the host 'anorman' as
>                                                ^s
> ;; user 'ange', get the file '/tmp/notes' and pop up a buffer containing the
>                    ^s                            ^s
> ;; contents of that file as if it were on the local filesystem.  If ange-ftp
> ;; needs a password to connect then it reads one in the echo area.

I'm not a native English speaker, but to me it sounds like active
voice. What's wrong with this?

Best regards, Michael.