From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1476: 23.0.60; spelling of (un)writeable should be(un)writable Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:00:22 -0800 Message-ID: <007901c95557$de58d850$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <001601c954d2$1362b0b0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <007701c9554d$1a7619c0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <20081203140036.GA20792@lamacq.ph.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: Drew Adams , 1476@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228317052 13273 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2008 15:10:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:10:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 1476@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: "'Lawrence Mitchell'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 16:11:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L7tOD-0001AY-O2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:11:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48534 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7tN3-0005iG-DC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:10:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7tMp-0005dO-6S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:10:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7tMn-0005cU-76 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:10:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51926 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7tMm-0005cH-SY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:10:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:57282) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L7tMm-0005gs-7w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:10:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id mB3FADrG020243; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:10:13 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id mB3FA644019663; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:10:06 -0800 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:10:06 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 1476 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1476-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B1476.122831642617279 (code B ref 1476); Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:10:06 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1476) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 3 Dec 2008 15:00:26 +0000 Original-Received: from rgminet11.oracle.com (rcsinet11.oracle.com [148.87.113.123]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id mB3F0NsU016929 for <1476@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:00:24 -0800 Original-Received: from acsinet13.oracle.com (acsinet13.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by rgminet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mB3F1Ad2021510 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:01:11 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt707.oracle.com (acsmt707.oracle.com [141.146.40.85]) by acsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mB3F0XHj004340; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:00:35 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.168.82) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:00:12 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AclVT5UocmORzEhBSrCOZw/ZW5LmAwAArgEg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 In-Reply-To: <20081203140036.GA20792@lamacq.ph.ed.ac.uk> X-Source-IP: acsmt707.oracle.com [141.146.40.85] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010203.49369EFE.001D:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:10:18 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:22904 Archived-At: > >> FWIW the OED says both are fine: writable, a. Also writeable. > > > English has no equivalent of l'Academie Francaise, and > > that includes the OED. > > Of this I am well aware, however, the OED's quotations for both forms > do not have writeable as an obsolete variant. No one said that "writeable" is obsolete. I said it's not helpful to users who might search for it with grep and Emacs search. > If you're willing to believe that the internet is a reasonable corpus, > this is not a true statement: > > ~ 1e6 results for writeable > ~ 3e6 results for writable > > Emacs should certainly standardise on one or other of the two > variants, but it's not as obviously clearcut as you make out. We agree Emacs should standardize. Would you have Emacs standardize on "writeable"? Should GNU man pages then switch and do the same?