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* `illegal' vs. `invalid'
@ 2005-03-24  5:56 Werner LEMBERG
  2005-03-25  6:42 ` Richard Stallman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Werner LEMBERG @ 2005-03-24  5:56 UTC (permalink / raw)



Doing a grep search for `illegal' in the CVS tree of emacs I find many
places where it should be `invalid' instead -- the same holds for
`legal' which should often be replaced with `valid'.  It's amazing for
me as an Austrian to see that native English speakers normally don't
make a clear distinction between those two words in daily speech.

I wonder whether such glitches shall be fixed before the next release,
and whether it should be fixed at all.


    Werner

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* Re: `illegal' vs. `invalid'
  2005-03-24  5:56 `illegal' vs. `invalid' Werner LEMBERG
@ 2005-03-25  6:42 ` Richard Stallman
  2005-03-25  9:29   ` Werner LEMBERG
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2005-03-25  6:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: emacs-devel

    Doing a grep search for `illegal' in the CVS tree of emacs I find many
    places where it should be `invalid' instead -- the same holds for
    `legal' which should often be replaced with `valid'.

These should all be fixed.  Would you please fix as many of them as
you have time to fix?

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* Re: `illegal' vs. `invalid'
  2005-03-25  6:42 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2005-03-25  9:29   ` Werner LEMBERG
  2005-03-27  3:53     ` Richard Stallman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Werner LEMBERG @ 2005-03-25  9:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: emacs-devel

>     Doing a grep search for `illegal' in the CVS tree of emacs I
>     find many places where it should be `invalid' instead -- the
>     same holds for `legal' which should often be replaced with
>     `valid'.
> 
> These should all be fixed.  Would you please fix as many of them as
> you have time to fix?

I fixed most of them.  Perhaps others can look at the remaining cases.


    Werner

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* Re: `illegal' vs. `invalid'
  2005-03-25  9:29   ` Werner LEMBERG
@ 2005-03-27  3:53     ` Richard Stallman
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2005-03-27  3:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: emacs-devel

    I fixed most of them.  Perhaps others can look at the remaining cases.

Thank you, and I hope others will fix the rest.  It has been a GNU
convention since 1985 or so to reject use of the term "illegal" except
in connection with laws.

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