From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reuben Thomas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Variant spellings in GNU Emacs documentation Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:30:16 +0100 (CET) Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: Reuben Thomas NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074381780 19671 80.91.224.253 (17 Jan 2004 23:23:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:23:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 18 00:21:40 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 1Ahzkr-0002sP-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:21:25 +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 1AhzkH-0000sC-Ag for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:20:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Ahzjl-0000gA-R3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:20:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AhzjF-0000UU-AP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:20:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.206.202.87] (helo=cognition.stroop.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AhzjE-0000Sj-L5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:19:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rrt (helo=localhost) by cognition.stroop.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AhzjE-0005EL-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:19:44 +0000 X-X-Sender: rrt@mnemosyne Original-To: bugs-gnu-emacs@gnu.org ReSent-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:19:32 +0100 (CET) ReSent-From: Reuben Thomas ReSent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org ReSent-Subject: Variant spellings in GNU Emacs documentation ReSent-Message-ID: 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:6612 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6612 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. However, today I was nearly bitten by a reference to "Netrape". I was annoyed because I was working on Netscape-related code in browse-url.el, and was hence interested in all references to the program. My usual tools (grep, incremental search) would have missed this one. So would the maintainers consider changing such mis-spellings? I'm not asking them to go on a big hunt, but only for them to treat reports of such errors as they'd treat reports of any other typo. Indeed, in this case, a quick s/MS-DOG/MS-DOS/ and s/Windoze/Windows/ would catch many of them, but there are others as I indicated above. -- http://www.mupsych.org/~rrt/ | humour, n. unexpected recognition