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U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:29:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:47604 Archived-At: On 6/29/11 6:15 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > tags 6775 wontfix > close 6775 > thanks > > Leo writes: > >> However in function names and arguments in message.el and Gnus, header >> usually means 'field' and headers means 'header'. Sometimes field is >> used directly to mean 'field' as in message-fetch-field. >> >> I find this inconsistency confusing. I think message.el and Gnus should >> follow the same terminology used in the RFCs mentioned above and other >> files, for example those in mail/, in Emacs to be consistent with their >> use of 'field' and 'header'. > > Yes, it's unfortunate that (especially older) functions in Gnus use > "field" where we really mean "header", but changing function names and > breaking third-party code for consistency here isn't worth it. defalias + make-obsolete = define-obsolete-function-alias -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA