Linux Basics Headings

Matthew Paul Thomas mpt at myrealbox.com
Wed Dec 20 02:02:34 UTC 2006


On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Brian Murray wrote:
> ...
> "Starting the terminal"
> "Switch to Console mode"
> "Disable the beep sound in Terminal mode"
> "Text Editing"
>
> I propose that "Switch" be changed to "Switching" and "Disable" changed
> to "Disabling".  My logic is that these are things that will be done
> repeatedly and should be phrased that way.  As this will effect quite a
> few pages I thought it was worthy of discussion.
> ...

Good idea -- not necessarily because something will be done repeatedly, 
but because the imperative tense looks unnecessarily like an order, and 
because "Xing the Y" is more concise than "How to X the Y".

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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