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Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? |
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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:05:16 +0000 |
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Hi, David and everybody else!
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:42:55AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
[ .... ]
> Anyway, the point is that Emacs _has_ chosen a language for its
> documentation. It would be out of place if I commented my
> contributions in German, so why should others document in British? We
> also have coding conventions we retain.
Well, I believe German was considered at one point, but with a right
margin (now) of only 65 in doc strings, that would exclude too many
words for German to be practical.
[ .... ]
> > So, yes, on balance, I would prefer British spellings to be left
> > alone in my Changelog entries and comments, but if Greg or anybody
> > else wants to "correct" them, it won't really bother me at all.
> > There's more pressing things to worry about.
> The problem is that ChangeLog entries can become NEWS eventually, and
> comments become DOC strings. And all are things people tend to grep
> for. And yes, this thread has been about "anybody else" wanting to
> correct things, not about rejecting contributions or tying down
> resources people want to spend elsewhere.
Sorry, just to clarify, I meant that there're more pressing things for
_me_ to worry about than moaning about my comments/ChangeLog entries
being changed. So if somebody does it, I won't moan, I won't even feel
resentful.
> > In a way, it's a bit like rigorously (no asides here, please!)
> > enforcing a particular way of laying out C code; lots of coding shops
> > in the proprietary world try (mostly half-heartedly) to do this, and
> > most hackers just ignore the silly rules. Following them would wipe
> > out useful information about who wrote what.
> We have Elisp coding conventions in Emacs, and C coding conventions, and
> yes, adhering to them is strongly desired. Nobody complained about that
> as far as I remember.
Well, the GNU coding standards, unlike most ones in the "real world", are
sensible, and GNU provides a way of adhering to them without effort (at
least, without effort apart from mine).
> --
> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, (continued)
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, David Kastrup, 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, David Kastrup, 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, David Kastrup, 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Nick Roberts, 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/30
Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Miles Bader, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/27