* Menu entries - sentence or title case?
@ 2022-12-20 20:13 Eshel Yaron
2022-12-20 21:32 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-12-21 22:15 ` Sean Whitton
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From: Eshel Yaron @ 2022-12-20 20:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
Hey all,
Most of the built-in menu entries in Emacs seem to use title case, e.g.
"Instrument Function for Debugging" and "Evaluate Buffer" in
emacs-lisp-mode-menu. On the other hand, some menus use sentence case.
For example, in gnus-summary-thread-menu we have "Find all messages in
thread" and in flymake-menu there's "Go to log buffer".
Is there a preference/convention in Emacs of using one style or the
other?
Mostly I'm asking because I noticed that I have a mix of sentence case
and title case entries in sweeprolog-menu in sweeprolog.el and looking
to fix that I thought it would be nice to go for consistency with Emacs.
Thanks,
Eshel
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* RE: [External] : Menu entries - sentence or title case?
2022-12-20 20:13 Menu entries - sentence or title case? Eshel Yaron
@ 2022-12-20 21:32 ` Drew Adams
2022-12-21 22:15 ` Sean Whitton
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From: Drew Adams @ 2022-12-20 21:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eshel Yaron, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Most of the built-in menu entries in Emacs seem to use title case, e.g.
> "Instrument Function for Debugging" and "Evaluate Buffer" in
> emacs-lisp-mode-menu. On the other hand, some menus use sentence case.
> For example, in gnus-summary-thread-menu we have "Find all messages in
> thread" and in flymake-menu there's "Go to log buffer".
>
> Is there a preference/convention in Emacs of using one style or the
> other?
>
> Mostly I'm asking because I noticed that I have a mix of sentence case
> and title case entries in sweeprolog-menu in sweeprolog.el and looking
> to fix that I thought it would be nice to go for consistency with Emacs.
+1 for caring about this.
[Someone else can speak to the guideline. I _think_
(and hope) that it's in favor of title case.]
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* Re: Menu entries - sentence or title case?
2022-12-20 20:13 Menu entries - sentence or title case? Eshel Yaron
2022-12-20 21:32 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
@ 2022-12-21 22:15 ` Sean Whitton
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From: Sean Whitton @ 2022-12-21 22:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eshel Yaron; +Cc: emacs-devel
Hello,
On Tue 20 Dec 2022 at 10:13PM +02, Eshel Yaron wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Most of the built-in menu entries in Emacs seem to use title case, e.g.
> "Instrument Function for Debugging" and "Evaluate Buffer" in
> emacs-lisp-mode-menu. On the other hand, some menus use sentence case.
> For example, in gnus-summary-thread-menu we have "Find all messages in
> thread" and in flymake-menu there's "Go to log buffer".
>
> Is there a preference/convention in Emacs of using one style or the
> other?
>
> Mostly I'm asking because I noticed that I have a mix of sentence case
> and title case entries in sweeprolog-menu in sweeprolog.el and looking
> to fix that I thought it would be nice to go for consistency with Emacs.
AIUI title case is preferred in American English, which is what Emacs
uses.
--
Sean Whitton
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