From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: Variant spellings in GNU Emacs documentation
Date: 19 Jan 2004 09:35:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur7xw4chb.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5k73o1lde.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on 19 Jan 2004 07:51:57 +0100)
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 19 Jan 2004 07:51:57 +0100
> > >
> > > It serves no useful purpose, in my opinion, and it makes creating
> > > useful indices and keyword searches more difficult.
> >
> > How so? Please elaborate.
>
> If you do a full-text search for MS-?DOS, you won't find the relevant
> occurences.
I think there's an "MS-DOS" near every "MS-DOG" instance, but if you
find one place where this isn't true, please point me to it.
> Ok, so the sense of humor from Emacs users we are testing for is
> demonstrated by laughing about the beliefs of people whom they don't
> respect?
That's how I see it, yes. Note that I didn't create the MS-DOG name,
so this is simply my view of this issue.
> It's not exactly the definition of "humor" I would want to project.
It's one possible definition, I guess.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-19 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-17 22:30 Variant spellings in GNU Emacs documentation Reuben Thomas
2004-01-18 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-18 22:28 ` Reuben Thomas
2004-01-19 20:12 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <mailman.865.1074453744.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-18 23:16 ` David Kastrup
2004-01-19 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.883.1074493658.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-19 6:51 ` David Kastrup
2004-01-19 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-01-19 12:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-01-20 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <mailman.969.1074573915.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-20 7:39 ` Barry Margolin
2004-01-20 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-20 14:07 ` Sam Steingold
[not found] ` <mailman.978.1074588520.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-20 9:47 ` David Kastrup
2004-01-20 22:31 ` Barry Margolin
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