From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Variant spellings in GNU Emacs documentation Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:15:05 -0500 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074453794 29869 80.91.224.253 (18 Jan 2004 19:23:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:23:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bugs-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 18 20:23:05 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiIVl-0006Vs-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:23:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AiIV7-0003M3-QV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:22:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AiIQO-0001mn-BJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:17:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AiIPh-0001RZ-QR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:17:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AiIPg-0001Pq-NW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:16:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AiIO1-0005zZ-E1; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:15:05 -0500 Original-To: Reuben Thomas In-reply-to: (message from Reuben Thomas on Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:30:16 +0100 (CET)) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6622 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6622 A minor gripe: from time to time I submit errors (mostly typos) in the GNU Emacs sources and documentation to the list. One thing that I haven't considered an error up to now is references to "MS-DOG", "Windoze" and the like. Writing "MS-DOG" is a common practice for us--it is not an error. "Windoze" is not so common, so maybe it could be useful to change.