Thanks Sebastien and Suvayu: your answers make a lot of sense (and are even
consistent with each other).

Tom


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 04:45:53PM +0200, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> > Tom Slee wrote:
> > > On the orgmode.org site this thing is called "Org mode" while on worg
> and
> > > in the papers on literate programming with org it is called "Org-mode"
> with
> > > a hyphen. On the email list it is commonly called "org-mode" (lower
> case o,
> > > hyphen) or just org.
> > >
> > > Is there any consensus about the proper name by which to refer to
> > > [oO]rg[-]mode in a formal context?
> >
> > Personally, I follow the convention used in the Emacs manual, that is
> Dired
> > mode, Hideshow mode, Org mode, etc.
>
> AFAIR, Carsten prefers it as Org mode too.
>
> That said, I think the names are somewhat context dependent.  The manual
> prefers Org mode, following the convention: <Name> mode.  On the list
> you will see people use org-mode because that is the actual command to
> turn on Org mode.  Sometimes this is shortened as org, or Org.  Academic
> discussions of Org mode are bound by the rules of grammar.  I guess that
> is why you might Org-mode instead of org-mode: proper nouns are
> capitalised.
>
> :)
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
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