Re: Windows in an screen session? In a screen session? Doesn't matter?

[Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>]

u34@net9.cf wrote:
> Referring to 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Selecting.html#Selecting 
> , openning sentence is 
> 
>     This section describes the commands for switching between windows in 
>     an screen session.
> 
> Does it matter if it is `an screen' or `a screen'?

The rule is nice and simple*: it's always "an" before a vowel, "a"
elsewhere, so the above text is just wrong: it has to be "a screen
session".

 *) There's a trick, of course: it's vowel SOUND, not vowel LETTER, so
    it's "an hour", "a unit".  But that's not relevant in this case.
-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package