From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: rgm@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:06:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9abh4h54t.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0806290313l1c002620k9c7763af30830519@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:13:14 +0200")
On Sun, Jun 29 2008, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
>> For consistency. Consistency looks good, both for maintainers
>> and (when visible to them) to the users.
I don't care much about this issue, but when looking for a ChangeLog
entry or a comment, it is easier to search only for a single spelling
variant.
> Also, I agree with Miles: differences in spelling (in comments and
> ChangeLog entries) add flavo[u]r.
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.).
> Much better that fixing "initialise" in ChangeLog entries would be
> to fix bad grammar (there's a lot, and I know it firsthand because
> I've perpetrated a few instances myself), check for missing entries
> (there are a lot of these), duplicate entries, non-monotonic times
> (days or weeks apart, not just arising from time-zone differences),
> lots and lots of cases of using "wildcards" to refer to several
> variables (which is against our ChangeLog policies, AFAICS),
> etc. etc.
In contrast to s/initialise/initialize/g, this can't be done
automatically.
Bye, Reiner.
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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 [this message]
2008-06-29 11:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
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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