From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal...
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:49:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uu0k78g4o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b05060902426f91bfc0@mail.gmail.com> (message from Juanma Barranquero on Thu, 9 Jun 2005 11:42:12 +0200)
> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 11:42:12 +0200
> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
>
> Is there any intent to maintain consistency in docstrings and texinfo
> docs wrt alternate spellings? (In fact, I think "horisontal" is
> incorrect, but I'll defer to native speakers...)
>
> In code:
> - horizontal is used in almost 99%
> - color is ~ 99%
> - behavior > 70%
>
> In the texinfo docs, "horisontal" and "colour" are not used;
> "behaviour" is about 7%.
AFAIK, the Emacs documentation follows the American spelling. So
color, behavior and horizontal are correct.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-09 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <f7ccd24b05060902426f91bfc0@mail.gmail.com>
2005-06-09 14:04 ` colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal Glenn Morris
2005-06-09 14:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-09 15:09 ` Glenn Morris
2005-06-10 13:29 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-09 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-09 14:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-09 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-06-10 0:15 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-10 13:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-11 12:18 ` Richard Stallman
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