From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Addition to emacsbug.el Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:07:43 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4180A8CF.1000002@swipnet.se> References: <417F6C5E.5070801@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098951043 7723 80.91.229.6 (28 Oct 2004 08:10:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:10:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 28 10:10:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CN5Mf-00015c-00 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:10:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CN5UR-0008Ot-Lo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:18:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CN5T1-0008CH-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:17:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CN5Sz-0008BY-UQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:17:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CN5Sz-0008Aw-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:17:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.54.107.70] (helo=mxfep01.bredband.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CN5Kp-0001hN-DI; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:08:39 -0400 Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain ([83.226.180.220] [83.226.180.220]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20041028080838.KJJY4883.mxfep01.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain>; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:08:38 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040916 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29101 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29101 Richard Stallman wrote: > + (if (fboundp 'x-server-vendor) > + (insert "X vendor `" (x-server-vendor) "', vendor version " > + (format "%d" (nth 2 (x-server-version))) "\n")) > > This uses the term "vendor" which we disparage. (In fact, I just got > through editing the doc strings and the Lisp manual to say so.) > Please say "distributor" instead of "vendor". > > For the same reasons, please say "X server distributor", not just "X > distributor". OK, I used "Distributor" and "version". That makes more sense on Mac OSX as there it is not about X. Jan D.