From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
Cc: 6675@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6675: 23.2; field, header and headers
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:29:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1iq49523r.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tynuses5.fsf@gmail.com> ("Štěpán Němec"'s message of "Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:06:50 +0200")
On 2010-07-20 10:06 +0100, Štěpán Němec wrote:
> Just in case you didn't know and it might be of some help/reference:
>
> (info "(gnus)Headers")
> (info "(gnus)Terminology")
Anyway, having a closer look at mail/, I found it also has
inconsistency.
> My take on it is: consistency surely is nice, but I never felt this to
> be a problem with Gnus (IOW, I see there is a lot of problems with
> inconsistent identifier naming, not only in Gnus, but in Emacs in
> general (as in any software of its size), but I don't see a problem
> with headers/fields in particular); bigger concern for me is that some
> not-necessarily-very-careful-and-well-thought-out change to the manual
> or even function names as you seem to suggest would make things only
> worse.
Gnus seems to be in maintenance mode for years. So I don't suppose
someone would take the trouble to think it out well.
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-20 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-20 6:32 bug#6675: 23.2; field, header and headers Leo
2010-07-20 9:06 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-07-20 20:29 ` Leo [this message]
2011-06-30 0:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-30 2:28 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-06-30 2:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-30 3:14 ` Glenn Morris
2011-06-30 10:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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