From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Variant spellings in GNU Emacs documentation
Date: 19 Jan 2004 00:16:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5r7xw3l0x.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.865.1074453744.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 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.
It serves no useful purpose, in my opinion, and it makes creating
useful indices and keyword searches more difficult.
In addition, it makes one look like a hypocrite if one stresses the
importance of using the correct name for systems like GNU/Linux.
While I do understand that the "MS-DOG" terminology has found its way
into GNU documentations long before the "GNU/Linux" issue came up, I
would not think it amiss changing it now where it still persists. I
don't think that there remains any necessity of pointing out the
deficiencies of MS-DOS as an operating system nowadays, and we don't
call, say, FreeDOS (if it is mentioned anywhere) FreeDOG, either.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-18 23:16 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 [this message]
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
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
[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
2004-01-20 14:07 ` Sam Steingold
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