From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:57:38 +0200 Message-ID: <85ej6gari5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214773090 5195 80.91.229.12 (29 Jun 2008 20:58:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:58:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 29 22:58:55 2008 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 1KD3yz-0004ph-SY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:58:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45859 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KD3y9-0006ZO-OU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KD3y3-0006Tj-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:57:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KD3y3-0006SN-2N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:57:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42203 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KD3y2-0006S3-SK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:57:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.50]:50267) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KD3xt-000139-K0; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-10-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-10-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.27]) by mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D10E51F4FDA; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:57:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (mail-in-13.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.53]) by mail-in-10-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B879E23D2CD; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:57:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-036-020.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.36.20]) by mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797D629D4ED; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:57:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B6CC01CCCE2F; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:57:38 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:20:23 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93/7407/Mon Jun 9 04:21:00 2008 on mail-in-13.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:100169 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Sam Steingold >> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:53:11 -0400 >> >> >> I don't care much about this issue, but when looking for a ChangeLog >> >> entry or a comment, it is easier to search only for a single spelling >> >> variant. >> > >> > Do you really search ChangeLog files for common words like color and >> > flavor? >> >> As a part of a complex regexp, sometimes. > > A complex regexp can catch both flavor and flavour without any > trouble. If the user has the linguistic experience to be aware of the availability of both spelling variants. We should not take this for granted. If we have consistent spelling, the user will notice that he does not find _anything_ rather than a random subset. This will much more likely cause him to try searching with a variant spelling. If you get no hits, you are more likely to reconsider rather than if you get just half the possible hits. Really, this variation does not help anybody. If somebody wants to invest the time to clean this up and convert to reasonably conservative American spelling (I don't care for "nite" instead of "night", for example), then I don't think we should discourage it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum