From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
Cc: 48592@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers
Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 12:31:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837djpkd8k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871r9xon5v.fsf@bernoul.li> (message from Jonas Bernoulli on Sun, 23 May 2021 10:43:40 +0200)
> From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
> Cc: 48592@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 10:43:40 +0200
>
> >> this also adds support for using "Authors" and "Maintainers" as the
> >> names of the header fields instead of just the singular forms.
> >
> > Why do we need these additions?
>
> OCD and grammar.
>
> > Couldn't we keep using Author and Maintainer?
>
> Of course. But why?
To keep Emacs smaller and less complex.
> > Having both variants immediately begs the question which is preferable
> > and why, arguments about style, and other bikeshedding.
>
> The answer seems obvious to me. Do it like (nearly?) all natural
> languages do it: If n=1 then singular, else (n>1) plural.
>
> > Unless there's a good reason for adding new headings, I'd prefer to
> > make do with what we already have.
>
> Grammatical mistakes tend to be distracting, especially if you see the
> same one over and over again, year after year.
>
> I was expecting this to be noncontroversial. ;)
See above.
But maybe I'm the odd one out here. Does anyone else have an opinion
on adding these headers?
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-22 20:25 bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-22 20:32 ` bug#48592: [PATCH 1/2] " Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-22 20:32 ` bug#48592: [PATCH 2/2] * lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mnt.el (lm-crack-address): Right-trim name Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-23 6:46 ` bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-23 8:43 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-23 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-05-23 9:52 ` Colin Baxter
2021-05-23 11:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-23 11:48 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-23 18:21 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-23 18:45 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-23 21:14 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-24 7:04 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-24 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 8:58 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-24 9:22 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-24 12:16 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-24 9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 12:10 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-24 13:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-30 17:59 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2021-06-30 19:24 ` Michael Albinus
2021-06-30 19:41 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2021-07-01 11:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2024-02-14 1:43 ` J.P.
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