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From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:48:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0806270248l292caa1ew97f7a3a2007f226e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u7icbdyin.fsf@gnu.org>

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:21, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Thanks, but are changes like this one really worth the trouble?  Looks
> like a terrible waste of energy (and bandwidth) to me.

I've been guilty of such a "waste of energy" a couple times or five
(most famously the time that I removed trailing whitespace in 600 or
700 files at once) so take what I say with a whole kg. of salt...

But in this case, I'd like to point out that comments and ChangeLog
entries are not the public interface of Emacs, so I'm not sure of the
propriety of changing "behaviour" -> "behavior" and "generalise" ->
"generalize" etc. I've always felt that it was the committer's
prerogative to use his/her native idiolect in such cases.

  Juanma




  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-27  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1KC8XT-0007F3-Io@monty-python.gnu.org>
2008-06-27  9:21 ` Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27  9:48   ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2008-06-27  9:50   ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 10:56     ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 11:40       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 12:01         ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 13:43           ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 18:14           ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-27 19:10             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 19:28             ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-28 13:20               ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-28 15:10                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-28 21:19                 ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-28 21:30                   ` Miles Bader
2008-06-28 21:47                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-28 22:45                     ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-28  6:48             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-29  9:52               ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-29 10:13                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-29 11:06                   ` Reiner Steib
2008-06-29 11:57                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-29 18:02                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-29 19:53                       ` Sam Steingold
2008-06-29 20:00                         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-30 14:43                           ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-29 20:20                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-29 20:57                           ` David Kastrup
2008-06-29 22:05                   ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-29 22:26                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-29 22:29                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-30  5:25                       ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30  7:48                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-30  8:16                           ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30  8:18                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-30  9:49                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30  9:42                           ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 10:07                             ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-30 12:05                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30 20:02                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-01 11:06                             ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-01 11:12                               ` David Kastrup
2008-07-01 12:19                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-01  7:36                           ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-01 12:40                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-01 14:10                               ` Johannes Weiner
2008-06-27  9:56   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-27 10:05     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 10:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27 10:23         ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 12:16       ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 12:30         ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 12:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27 12:52           ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 16:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27 16:54             ` Agustin Martin
2008-06-28  2:01               ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 13:46         ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-28  1:02           ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-28  1:07             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-28  1:50               ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-30 13:43         ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30 13:33           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-30 13:39             ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 13:59               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-30 14:43             ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30 18:23             ` Johan Bockgård
2008-06-30 18:40               ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 20:32           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-07-01  1:04           ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 15:38   ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-27 16:55     ` Eli Zaretskii

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