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: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:57:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214740747 10135 80.91.229.12 (29 Jun 2008 11:59:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:59:07 +0000 (UTC) To: "Reiner Steib" , rms@gnu.org, rgm@gnu.org, "Eli Zaretskii" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 29 13:59:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KCvZO-0000fa-D3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:59:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36371 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCvYY-00036h-8N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:58:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCvXL-0002B9-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCvXK-0002AB-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38534 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCvXJ-0002A6-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:57:41 -0400 Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.189]:10657) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KCvXJ-0001ER-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:57:41 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so293528nfi.26 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:57:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=iGWK9zv0MNQ5QYzIxzaxPd+VSdubmMYs8260saap9vo=; b=g7sUukOlDxMCE9GDnQ4NSuDku7tYcakPfwPjgkrmxB+X7xcgrIyH7sOsimKm/XoMFc qli298sj4XRiXAmcUgkg+fGqJcClvxjT07qA+z8TWG0w8uOKeVU1zK7xjDPjnHmegglO Fv3Lh9Mt+aPlb5IBCT3hIspxOY8YnLy77aiyo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=j3g9fXko0kinxGQCtICU4Pt/GwedzFMWsbLM1dxuJf9RgCDeBlsqXfntI1G5N8CMLp J0VY7YdMu44i4plQnBWePWa0zRDbu+RChXWODgL6y3hPr8hzxv9rEPaqQQBmo88oFIOF 9lOF225A2PrpsFO2HeL8/uPSM3GZCn1F+pcxw= Original-Received: by 10.210.13.17 with SMTP id 17mr3051371ebm.94.1214740660412; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.71.14 with HTTP; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:57:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100132 Archived-At: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 13:06, Reiner Steib wrote: > but when looking for a ChangeLog > entry or a comment, it is easier to search only for a single spelling > variant. That's evidently true, though I don't think I've ever done much searching for comments, and only rarely for ChangeLog descriptions (as opposed to files, variables and functions). > I'd guess it is much easier to unify the spelling globally than to > check if the location is user visible or not (comment vs. doc string, > etc.). Well, I don't agree (and I've done my quote of typo-fixing). For starters, fixing typos in docstrings requires adding a ChangeLog entry, while comment changes do not. > In contrast to s/initialise/initialize/g, this can't be done > automatically. That would make these kinds of changes all the more valuable, then. But anyway, no typo-fixing can be done automatically. There are variables and functions with wrong spellings, for example. Juanma