Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: add exec command to launch a shell command

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On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ęvar Arnfjörš Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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