From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105834: Capitalize non-function content words in menu item strings. Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:03:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316441095 19552 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2011 14:04:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:04:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 19 16:04:51 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R5eSn-00081c-MA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:04:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49542 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R5eSn-0004b5-8T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59079) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R5eSh-0004av-76 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:04:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R5eSY-0001Em-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:04:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f44.google.com ([209.85.210.44]:64745) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R5eSY-0001Ea-Pq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:04:34 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk36 with SMTP id 36so9746068pzk.3 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:04:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XM8N7KNC4k4ACTG3Ak/oAJ3v3xLR3HBEHQ1qmzmW044=; b=gS1CdqFI/wnasQmAhR8au3XByYhkRFlIVZAvire8DL7vRmOAHpSrv6AYsQEQOyyJt/ 6+JD3WS7o/GGOmSXtDoqW0mQiuG+i8ternImNSnepMNC+rdbxpEnadDmOA8KTX0BmOX5 eL0kMN0axEeldEm3cTLbga2meymDF25jJlzQA= Original-Received: by 10.68.50.166 with SMTP id d6mr1942878pbo.258.1316441073094; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:04:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.158.19 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:03:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.44 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144095 Archived-At: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 15:18, Stefan Monnier wr= ote: > Why do we do that? =C2=A0I guess one answer can be "because other GUI app= s do > it", but then the question simply becomes: why do they do it? They follow ill-defined, prevalent, incoherent conventions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_publication_titles =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma