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

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Matthieu Moy
[off-list ref] wrote:

Ęvar Arnfjörš Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:

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+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.