From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] CVS HEAD "find-file-confirm-inexistent-file" in lisp/files.el
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:03:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uir8xdf2a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bqeql0uw.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (merlyn@stonehenge.com)
> From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:31:03 -0700
>
> The name is still spelled wrong. NEVER in my years as a human being
> in the North American English world have I heard "inexistent".
>
> It's always been "nonexistent". Please fix the spelling before release.
As someone who claims such a good knowledge of the English language,
please in the future try to be less rude in your email messages (I
mean your original report in particular). People who work on Emacs
don't deserve this, even when they make mistakes that look stupid and
unbecoming to you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-06 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-01 23:05 [BUG] CVS HEAD "find-file-confirm-inexistent-file" in lisp/files.el Randal L. Schwartz
2007-07-01 23:08 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-07-02 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-02 19:51 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-07-03 4:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-02 19:59 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-07-05 19:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-06 2:31 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-07-06 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-07-06 18:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-09 9:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-07-09 16:01 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-07-09 21:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-07-09 23:33 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-07-10 11:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-07-10 13:29 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-07-10 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-10 18:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-11 0:27 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-07-11 3:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-07-11 3:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-10 22:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-07-10 23:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-07-11 8:26 ` tomas
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