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



Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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".
> 


https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?64669 has been submitted.


>  *) 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


Thank you.
--
u34


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