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From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: "Reiner Steib" <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>,
	rms@gnu.org, rgm@gnu.org,  "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:57:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0806290457o612846bak138b5492cfc95acf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9abh4h54t.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 13:06, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:

> but when looking for a ChangeLog
> entry or a comment, it is easier to search only for a single spelling
> variant.

That's evidently true, though I don't think I've ever done much
searching for comments, and only rarely for ChangeLog descriptions (as
opposed to files, variables and functions).

> I'd guess it is much easier to unify the spelling globally than to
> check if the location is user visible or not (comment vs. doc string,
> etc.).

Well, I don't agree (and I've done my quote of typo-fixing). For
starters, fixing typos in docstrings requires adding a ChangeLog
entry, while comment changes do not.

> In contrast to s/initialise/initialize/g, this can't be done
> automatically.

That would make these kinds of changes all the more valuable, then.
But anyway, no typo-fixing can be done automatically. There are
variables and functions with wrong spellings, for example.

   Juanma




  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-29 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1KC8XT-0007F3-Io@monty-python.gnu.org>
2008-06-27  9:21 ` Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27  9:48   ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27  9:50   ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 10:56     ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 11:40       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 12:01         ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 13:43           ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 18:14           ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-27 19:10             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 19:28             ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-28 13:20               ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-28 15:10                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-28 21:19                 ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-28 21:30                   ` Miles Bader
2008-06-28 21:47                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-28 22:45                     ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-28  6:48             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-29  9:52               ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-29 10:13                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-29 11:06                   ` Reiner Steib
2008-06-29 11:57                     ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2008-06-29 18:02                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-29 19:53                       ` Sam Steingold
2008-06-29 20:00                         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-30 14:43                           ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-29 20:20                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-29 20:57                           ` David Kastrup
2008-06-29 22:05                   ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-29 22:26                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-29 22:29                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-30  5:25                       ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30  7:48                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-30  8:16                           ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30  8:18                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-30  9:49                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30  9:42                           ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 10:07                             ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-30 12:05                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30 20:02                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-01 11:06                             ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-01 11:12                               ` David Kastrup
2008-07-01 12:19                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-01  7:36                           ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-01 12:40                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-01 14:10                               ` Johannes Weiner
2008-06-27  9:56   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-27 10:05     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 10:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27 10:23         ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 12:16       ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 12:30         ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 12:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27 12:52           ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 16:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27 16:54             ` Agustin Martin
2008-06-28  2:01               ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 13:46         ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-28  1:02           ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-28  1:07             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-28  1:50               ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-30 13:43         ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30 13:33           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-30 13:39             ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 13:59               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-30 14:43             ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30 18:23             ` Johan Bockgård
2008-06-30 18:40               ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 20:32           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-07-01  1:04           ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 15:38   ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-27 16:55     ` Eli Zaretskii

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