From: Tom Slee <tslee@web.ca>
To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org mode or Org-mode or org-mode or org?
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:09:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANOfeyd6TWKjw=5Cto6GRYyuNqzq47HC0=xqf2=+6YSm4aObrg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130731150642.GB17227@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com>
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Thanks Sebastien and Suvayu: your answers make a lot of sense (and are even
consistent with each other).
Tom
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 04:45:53PM +0200, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> > Tom Slee wrote:
> > > On the orgmode.org site this thing is called "Org mode" while on worg
> and
> > > in the papers on literate programming with org it is called "Org-mode"
> with
> > > a hyphen. On the email list it is commonly called "org-mode" (lower
> case o,
> > > hyphen) or just org.
> > >
> > > Is there any consensus about the proper name by which to refer to
> > > [oO]rg[-]mode in a formal context?
> >
> > Personally, I follow the convention used in the Emacs manual, that is
> Dired
> > mode, Hideshow mode, Org mode, etc.
>
> AFAIR, Carsten prefers it as Org mode too.
>
> That said, I think the names are somewhat context dependent. The manual
> prefers Org mode, following the convention: <Name> mode. On the list
> you will see people use org-mode because that is the actual command to
> turn on Org mode. Sometimes this is shortened as org, or Org. Academic
> discussions of Org mode are bound by the rules of grammar. I guess that
> is why you might Org-mode instead of org-mode: proper nouns are
> capitalised.
>
> :)
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-31 13:30 Org mode or Org-mode or org-mode or org? Tom Slee
2013-07-31 14:45 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-07-31 15:06 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-07-31 15:09 ` Tom Slee [this message]
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