[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Grammar on file truncated message (#1003)

[philip r brenan]

![zzz](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/7548378/14763072/00f010ee-0983-11e6-961b-666bb410fc5e.png)

Please consider using the phrase:  

"The file might have been truncated by this action"

which uses the subjunctive to imply uncertainty,  the present past to indicate an action which occurred in the past but which has consequences now in the present and the passive voice to indicate uncertainty as to who performed the action.

The message as it stands indicates that some unknown agency has permission to truncate the file  in the immediate future if they wish to - which is not the case.

Thanks!




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