From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add user extension APIs for WebKit Xwidgets Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:46:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <763B89A7-AF82-4AAB-A0E9-A04D9958CAE8@stanford.edu> <878rlianx4.fsf@yahoo.com> <9FF9464C-1369-423E-A581-A900D132845F@stanford.edu> <87zgdy97t1.fsf@yahoo.com> <63F00459-018C-4634-9B52-A89A3ED1AA36@stanford.edu> <0F1442C8-45E2-408C-B310-448B4A26496E@stanford.edu> <838rlf3tiz.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24137"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 20 21:48:23 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1olbWg-00064J-Ve for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:48:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1olbWf-0007us-Rn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:48:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [::1] (helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1olbUx-00066k-OC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:46:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1olbUt-00060P-UR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:46:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1olbUt-0002ye-J6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:46:31 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=SV3cccE8uVEjf3QpnThRM9j/jTmd5lVcMpd3/m0NMIU=; b=b7c+dXKS+X52 8FG4IfcjeFKeUMlNzLcdMGI8U4VSn2MvoATHLXJT7tOXzfdHGIDZPnEq1vrMwC+ILl9JtgCqVkGz0 mr+e0oM/OhRByXo5Tetcl44tvsIxGanZlyKLZHq5B20ST5XD3yMGsUamAAj7qF29Xm9pwsdSn5iHH ATRkOW+XPp/SUXZKYJgv9XF7EumRymhyqhlIKonRQzWfZCeKzT4jWAcusxngUyOtnwI9MoLfEk5jl gOHQS0/HuJ0KTAlWIcNgL+80U7+gHjspNl6bkIefUGvzfvcgfAqIhthyym39xpdqBufYEwcrZmXKi VvDLOx9UVbdtw/0U2QBj0Q==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1olbUs-0000k7-8r; Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:46:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <838rlf3tiz.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:31:48 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298173 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > That section fails to suggest good replacements for this term, > AFAICT. It suggests "works" and "publications." I will add "messages", because in some context that is the category of things that people are referring to. > And, of course, we frequently say stuff like "file's contents" or > "buffer contents", which is perfectly OK, IMO. This usage is not > mentioned in that article, so someone, especially non-native speakers, > could think such uses are part of the problem -- perhaps another minor > issue that should be mentioned there, but isn't. I will add text about that in https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html. Thanks. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)