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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
Cc: 10150@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10150: deactive->inactive, inactivate->deactivate spelling fixes
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:33:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED498DA.3060406@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85d3cc561l.fsf@iznogoud.viz>

On 11/28/11 12:46, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
> the Longman Dictionary of the English Language (2nd
> ed. 1991) contains

I stand corrected.

Still, it's confusing that Emacs typically uses "deactivate",
(e.g., deactivate-mark) but sometimes employs "inactivate" instead.
A quick estimation shows that "deactivate" and related forms
are used far more often:

$ cat $(find * -type f) | grep -ci deactivat
815
$ cat $(find * -type f) | grep -ci inactivat
65

Is there some significance to the use of "inactivate" as opposed
to "deactivate"?  If not, it'd be simpler and cleaner for
Emacs to use the more-typical form uniformly.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-29  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-27 23:38 bug#10150: deactive->inactive, inactivate->deactivate spelling fixes Paul Eggert
2011-11-28 11:17 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-11-29  8:04   ` Paul Eggert
2011-11-29 11:47     ` Štěpán Němec
2011-11-29 11:47     ` Štěpán Němec
2011-12-31  6:12       ` Paul Eggert
2012-01-03 16:55         ` Štěpán Němec
2012-01-12  8:12           ` Paul Eggert
2012-01-12 16:08             ` Štěpán Němec
2011-11-28 20:46 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2011-11-29  4:52   ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-29 15:37     ` Drew Adams
2011-11-29  8:33   ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2012-07-29  7:19 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-02  0:51 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-08-02  1:36   ` Paul Eggert

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