From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105834: Capitalize non-function content words in menu item strings.
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:31:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy5xkmwol.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SRoacxExyM1gTU8oOyn8KE9m2ExRKTfJnf_BZWsxycs5w@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:03:53 +0200")
>> Why do we do that? I guess one answer can be "because other GUI apps 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
That's also my impression. If that's the only reason, then I don't see
why Emacs should follow that bad habit.
Stefan
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2011-09-19 13:18 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105834: Capitalize non-function content words in menu item strings Stefan Monnier
2011-09-19 14:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-19 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-09-19 14:19 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-19 14:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-19 18:43 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-19 16:07 ` Glenn Morris
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