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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



  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-19 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1R5Ojk-0008T4-5r@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
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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