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by: hongy...@gmail.com - Mon, 28 Feb 2022 07:39 UTC

See the following wording by me [1]:

```
So, I'm looking for an alternative solution which execute pyenv rehash only when necessary, not every time a new terminal session is opened.
```

In the above statement, should I use "not every time" or "instead of every time"?

[1] https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/issues/2256#issuecomment-1053970802

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by: CDB - Mon, 28 Feb 2022 13:15 UTC

On 2/28/2022 2:39 AM, hongy...@gmail.com wrote:

> See the following wording by me [1]:

> ```
> So, I'm looking for an alternative solution which execute pyenv rehash only when necessary, not every time a new terminal session is opened.
> ```

> In the above statement, should I use "not every time" or "instead of every time"?

> [1] https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/issues/2256#issuecomment-1053970802

"Not" is fine. The verb should be "executes"; but I'm sure that was a typo.

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