From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: typo in accept-process-output (process.c) Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:06:01 +0100 Message-ID: <46B908E9.7070706@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186531594 31465 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2007 00:06:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:06:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 08 02:06:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IIZ4I-0002Jz-4h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:06:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIZ4H-0000DZ-Nm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:06:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIZ4E-0000DA-KB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:06:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIZ4B-0000Bk-KM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:06:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIZ4B-0000Bh-E2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:06:23 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIZ4A-0004LO-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:06:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2203A5006E; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 01:06:22 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76169 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > Also, the Emacs user community includes mostly developers so far, and many > of them produce software, specs, and documentation that are aimed at other > developers. My guess is that many (most?) Emacs users will already be > familiar with "iff", but I could be wrong about that. > Many may be familiar, but many are also not familiar, even developers. I had never encountered the term until the original bug report a few months ago. I suspect it is seldom encountered outside of the field of computer science and certain branches of mathematics and philosophy.