Most people say I wish I could, I wish you would.    Can we use I wish I can, I wish you will?    I'd like to know what the main differences between the usage of can/will and could/would are when wishing.  Is it related to the subjunctive? Because one says “I wish I were”, not “I wish I am”, so are would and could the subjunctive forms of can and will?  Or is it something else entirely?
Non-na­tive speak­ers of­ten get con­fused about what the var­i­ous tens­es  and as­pects mean in English. With in­put from some of the folk here I've put to­geth­er a di­a­gram that I hope will pro­vide some clar­i­ty on the mat­ter.  I of­fer it as the first an­swer to this ques­tion. Con­sid­er it a liv­ing doc­u­ment. In­put is wel­come, and good sug­ges­tions will be  in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the di­a­gram.    No­ta bene: What this is not is a dis­cus­sion of whether there are  more than two tens­es in English. , to which this ques­tion is not in­tend­ed to sup­ply ar­gu­ments one way or the oth­er.  Here, the aim is to pro­vide an overview of what con­struc­tions English-speak­ing peo­ple use for con­vey­ing in­for­ma­tion about ac­tions re­fer­ring to past, present, and fu­ture, and to pro­vide it first and fore­most to pre­cise­ly the peo­ple who are like­ly to use "tense" as a catch-all term in their search, rather than to lin­guists who know bet­ter.  Break­ing News There is now an ex­cel­lent ELU blog ar­ti­cle ti­tled  . It is high­ly rec­om­mend­ed read­ing.
Start modal operator from a click in panel I want to start a modal operator by clicking a button in a panel in the properties region. It should then stop when I click somewhere in the 3D viewport. I want to execute some code when I start and finish the operator (see the code below). I tried modifiyng the modal operator template with an execute method to start the modal operator. But the now the context.space_data.type is always &quot;PROPERTIES&quot; because that's where the panel is located, I guess. Is this a bad way of doing what I want? class MY_OPERATOR_OT_click_on_3dview(bpy.types.Operator):          bl_idname = &quot;mesh.click_on_3dview&quot;     bl_label = &quot;Click on 3D&quot;      def modal(self, context, event):                  if context.space_data.type != 'VIEW_3D':             return {'PASS_THROUGH'}                  if event.type in {'MIDDLEMOUSE', 'WHEELUPMOUSE', 'WHEELDOWNMOUSE'}:             # allow navigation             return {'PASS_THROUGH'}         elif event.type == 'LEFTMOUSE':             # DO ALL THE POST-SELECT STUFF             return {'FINISHED'}         elif event.type in {'RIGHTMOUSE', 'ESC'}:             return {'CANCELLED'}          return {'RUNNING_MODAL'}      def execute(self, context):         # DO ALL THE SETUP STUFF           context.window_manager.modal_handler_add(self)              return {'RUNNING_MODAL'}            def cancel(self, context):         print(&quot;CANCEL???&quot;) Link Google Form responses To Already Existing Google Spreadsheet Tab I have a Google Form. I had all of my Google Form responses linked to a specific tab in my Google Spreadsheet. Somehow my form responses were unlinked from my tab. When I go to re-link my form responses to my already existing tab it only gives me the option to create a new tab in my spreadsheet.   How do I simply re-link my Google Form responses to my already existing tab in my Google Spreadsheet? Sequence of sets $f_n$ that converge almost everywhere to $f$ but not almost uniformly to $f$? I was looking at the decomposition of Fibonacci numbers using the definition of $F_n = F_{n-1} + F_{n-2}$, and noted the pattern in the coefficients of the terms were Fibonacci numbers. It appears to hold, and I believe it's true, but I haven't seen a proof for it. Does one exist?  $F_n = 1F_{n-1} + 1F_{n-2}$ $F_n = 2F_{n-2} + 1F_{n-3}$ $F_n = 3F_{n-3} + 2F_{n-4}$ $F_n = 5F_{n-4} + 3F_{n-5}$ etc  This can be generalized to $F_n = F_xF_{n-(x-1)}+F_{x-1}F_{n-x}$ Declare IDisposable for the class or interface? Does quantum spin contribute to the angular momentum of a black hole? what does the ldapadd error: "additional info: objectClass: value #2invalid per syntax mean? Heroku deployment failed because of sqlite3 gem error What is the rigor behind U subsitution? How can timelapse sequences be shot without having in-camera support for it?  Which third-party tools are recommended? When the site is in read-only mode, I get a message like this:     This site is currently in read-only mode.   Would it be possible to update that message to provide links to these resources on SE's status:   : Official SE tweets on SE's status. : Official blog posts on SE's status. Proving Invertibility and Eigenvalues If matrix $A$ is an $n\times n$ matrix such that $A^2 -A -2I=0$.  How can I show that $A$ is invertible and that $A^{-1} = \frac12(A-I)$? Also, how do I show that one of the eigenvalues of $A$ is $2$ or $ -1$? I appreciate any help on this question. I asked a question on Stack Overflow: . I want to award my bounty to  by user  However, my Stack Overflow account is suspended recently for 7 days, and the suspension still has 5 more days to end.And I know I can't vote, ask, answer or comment as pointed on  by  with the sentence below.  You will be unable to vote, ask, answer, or comment.  I couldn't find anything about not being able to accept an answer or award bounty so I tried to accept the mentioned answer above and award my bounty to it and I got a  Suspended users cannot vote  rejection which can be seen below with a screenshot.  I know this  If you do not award your bounty within 7 days, the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with at least 2 upvotes will be awarded half the bounty amount.  from . None of the answer given to my question is upvoted and the answer I mentioned is not the oldest one after the bounty started so it won't be awarded by community. What can I do? (except being a good guy and not get suspended :)) Why do popular but not ideal questions keep being closed? I notice a really worrying trend of some really popular questions being closed and eventually deleted. Some of them became legends already, like this one  ? Yes, it does not fit the format ideally, but what is point of obeying the letter of the law to such extent that it becomes ridiculous? Ok, closing is fine if community leaders became so pedantic, but why go so far as to even delete it? At this point it looks like burning old pictures just because you don't like them.  Update: Summary  For now I heard only two clear arguments:   Those questions pollute search results.  Those questions don't play well with enforcing question and answer standards.   Both of that statements are easily verifiable and to my experience are just false. I've added many PPAs using the add-apt-repository command. Is there a simple way to remove these PPAs? I've checked in /etc/apt/sources.list for the appropriate deb lines but they aren't there.   This is on a server system so a command line solution would be great! I just noticed that the  user edited a ~1 year old  of mine. As you can see, the method call was changed from getSfGuardUser to getGuardUser:    Now I checked the documentation and it seems that the edit is correct.  But how did Community know about that? As far as I know, it is an automated process. Does it have a reference of all possible APIs of languages/frameworks (which seems very unlikely) or is there a routine admins can trigger, for replacing content? Or is it a secret? Is it legal to develop a game using D&D rules? For a while now I've been thinking about trying my hand at creating a game similar in spirit and execution to Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and offshoots. I'd rather not face the full bulk of work in implementing my own RPG system - I'd like to use D&amp;D rules.  Now, reading about the subject it seems there is something called "The License" which allows a company to brand a game as D&amp;D. This license seems to be exclusive, and let's just say I don't have the money to buy it :p.  Is it still legal for me to implement and release such a game? Commercially or open-source? I'm not sure exactly which edition would fit the best, but since Baldur's Gate is based of 2nd edition, could I go ahead an implement that?  in short: what are the issues concerning licensing and publishing when it comes to D&amp;D?  Also: Didn't see any similar question... Should a student be penalized for using a theorem outside of the curriculum? Lebesgue measurable but not Borel measurable How can I deduce/identify an app from a notification icon?