From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: [Emacs-diffs] master 3de474e: Spelling fixes Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:35:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20141214074142.18559.65704@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418578601 13901 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2014 17:36:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 17:36:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert To: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 14 18:36:34 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0D5t-0006yn-QD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 18:36:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36714 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0D5t-0004Rr-3Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:36:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39995) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0D5Y-0004RY-Fl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:36:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0D5P-0006dm-Ok for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:36:12 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:47270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0D5P-0006de-J0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:36:03 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id sBEHZsfY031544 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 14 Dec 2014 17:35:55 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.5) with ESMTP id sBEHZqR4029153 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 14 Dec 2014 17:35:54 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0014.oracle.com (abhmp0014.oracle.com [141.146.116.20]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sBEHZqrB029136; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 17:35:52 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180097 Archived-At: > > * lib-src/etags.c (analyze_regex): Rename from analyse_regex. >=20 > How is that fixing anything? Last I checked "analyze" is the > standard US spelling of the British "analyse", and Emacs as a > general rule does not prefer British spelling (and I personally > like spelling fixes but consider English spelling to include both > US and British spelling, so changing one form to the other is just > a waste of time). No. Pick one and be consistent. AFAIK, U.S. spelling, and U.S. usage in general, has already been picked. Spelling bugs are not the most important buts, surely. But they do affect the ability of users (and even tools sometimes) to interact with Emacs. Think search, in particular. Now, if you are going to provide Google-like fuzzily semantic & phonetic search heuristics to *all* Emacs access functions, including all kinds of "search", then spelling might not be so important. But even in that case it is important for the base naming/text to be consistent, so that tools accessing/searching at such a "raw" level can work better and more simply. Saying that changing to US spelling is "a waste of time" is, well, irresponsible. It might be a waste of your time for you to do that, but it is not a waste of time for someone to improve Emacs in this way. Saying "How is that fixing anything?" when someone proposes or makes such a fix is fundamentally misguided and unhelpful.