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[90.177.119.176]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j9sm29064540bkd.2.2011.11.28.03.23.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:23:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4ED2CA07.2090202@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:38:47 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:26:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:54352 Archived-At: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:38:47 +0100 Paul Eggert wrote: > Package: emacs > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > > Standard English uses the adjective "inactive" and the verb > "deactivate"; "deactive" and "inactivate" are solecisms. > Emacs is pretty good about following standard usage but departs > from it in a few places in the API. Here's a patch. Since we're > in a feature freeze this should wait until after 24.1 is out. By renaming functions and variables without any kind of deprecation procedure (cf. `make-obsolete' and friends), you'd leave users with customisation and third-party libraries stopping working, with no clue about what happened. I don't think GNU Emacs maintainer standards have sunk that low (certainly not for hooks and other identifiers of immediate interest to all users). I think this caveat applies to some of your other recent patches as well, I haven't been following them closely. --=20 =C5=A0t=C4=9Bp=C3=A1n