From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Variant spellings in GNU Emacs documentation Date: 19 Jan 2004 07:51:57 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074495388 25293 80.91.224.253 (19 Jan 2004 06:56:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 06:56:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 19 07:56:24 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 1AiTKh-0000Ck-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:56:24 +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 1AiTHY-0002ND-Tc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:53:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AiTHW-0002Ma-Fk for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:53:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AiTH0-0002BK-MT for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:53:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AiTH0-00029S-13 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:52:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.4.58.12] (helo=horus.isnic.is) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AiTGW-0003t7-JY for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:52:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de (root@mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) by horus.isnic.is (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/isnic) with ESMTP id i0J6pucs089100 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 06:51:57 GMT (envelope-from dak@gnu.org) Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:51:55 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:51:55 +0100 (MET) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: p3ee20b93.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 42 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: p3ee20b93.dip.t-dialin.net (62.226.11.147) X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1074495115 18125215 62.226.11.147 ([198409]) X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:6635 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6635 Eli Zaretskii writes: > > From: David Kastrup > > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug > > Date: 19 Jan 2004 00:16:30 +0100 > > > > > > Writing "MS-DOG" is a common practice for us--it is not an error. > > > > 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. > AFAIR, we have index entries in place to make this a non-issue. If > you have practical examples where these humorous names can hinder > documentation, please post them, perhaps some improvements are in > order. > > > In addition, it makes one look like a hypocrite if one stresses > > the importance of using the correct name for systems like > > GNU/Linux. > > Personally, I don't see anything wrong with testing the sense of > humor of Emacs users. Someone once posted an angry message about > Antinews on similar grounds, but I don't think we must be that dead > serious about these things. We can always use a bit of smiling once > in a while. > > GNU/Linux is different: you don't laugh about the beliefs of people > whom you respect. 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? It's not exactly the definition of "humor" I would want to project. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum