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passive voice in Emacs Lisp Reference Manual

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 76135 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76135: passive voice in Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:38:15 -0500

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  > > It seems that people have a tendency to reqrite text into passive voice,
  > > which is gradually making the manual a little harder to read.

  > We try to find these cases during patch review and flag them, but it's
  > an uphill battle that never ends.

I know what that is like.

Let's ask everyone to look for these when they read code or Info, and
report or fix them.

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