* `illegal' vs. `invalid'
@ 2005-03-24 5:56 Werner LEMBERG
2005-03-25 6:42 ` Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Werner LEMBERG @ 2005-03-24 5:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
Doing a grep search for `illegal' in the CVS tree of emacs I find many
places where it should be `invalid' instead -- the same holds for
`legal' which should often be replaced with `valid'. It's amazing for
me as an Austrian to see that native English speakers normally don't
make a clear distinction between those two words in daily speech.
I wonder whether such glitches shall be fixed before the next release,
and whether it should be fixed at all.
Werner
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread* Re: `illegal' vs. `invalid' 2005-03-24 5:56 `illegal' vs. `invalid' Werner LEMBERG @ 2005-03-25 6:42 ` Richard Stallman 2005-03-25 9:29 ` Werner LEMBERG 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Richard Stallman @ 2005-03-25 6:42 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: emacs-devel Doing a grep search for `illegal' in the CVS tree of emacs I find many places where it should be `invalid' instead -- the same holds for `legal' which should often be replaced with `valid'. These should all be fixed. Would you please fix as many of them as you have time to fix? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: `illegal' vs. `invalid' 2005-03-25 6:42 ` Richard Stallman @ 2005-03-25 9:29 ` Werner LEMBERG 2005-03-27 3:53 ` Richard Stallman 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Werner LEMBERG @ 2005-03-25 9:29 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: emacs-devel > Doing a grep search for `illegal' in the CVS tree of emacs I > find many places where it should be `invalid' instead -- the > same holds for `legal' which should often be replaced with > `valid'. > > These should all be fixed. Would you please fix as many of them as > you have time to fix? I fixed most of them. Perhaps others can look at the remaining cases. Werner ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: `illegal' vs. `invalid' 2005-03-25 9:29 ` Werner LEMBERG @ 2005-03-27 3:53 ` Richard Stallman 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Richard Stallman @ 2005-03-27 3:53 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: emacs-devel I fixed most of them. Perhaps others can look at the remaining cases. Thank you, and I hope others will fix the rest. It has been a GNU convention since 1985 or so to reject use of the term "illegal" except in connection with laws. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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