From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Variant spellings in GNU Emacs documentation Date: 19 Jan 2004 09:35:44 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074497825 28862 80.91.224.253 (19 Jan 2004 07:37:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:37:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 19 08:37:01 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 1AiTy0-0001SF-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:37:00 +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 1AiTwg-0007cq-1k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:35:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AiTwe-0007ck-4J for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:35:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AiTw8-0007GT-7B for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:35:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.168.1.22] (helo=trinity.supernews.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AiTw7-0007Ed-NV for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:35:03 -0500 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]:43567) by trinity.supernews.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1AiTw6-000NL2-Lk for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:35:02 +0000 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0014) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AiTv8-0006Vs-E9; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:34:02 -0500 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on 19 Jan 2004 07:51:57 +0100) 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:6636 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6636 > From: David Kastrup > 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.