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bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Jul 2013 09:42:30 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:27:09 -0700 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
PE> On 07/08/2013 07:54 AM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> Anyway, I just don't see much of an upside to changing the what symbols
>> are used in internal data structures.
PE> Emacs source code should avoid misspellings even in
PE> comments and in symbols used only internally. This is
PE> because the misspellings can cause confusion among
PE> developers, who are the main audience for the code.
I disagree for internal symbols, and because IMHO this is not a
misspelling. There is very specific meaning to "unexist" that I can't
think of a way to convey easily by any other simple verbs.
PE> I could mark "unexist" as a word that is allowed to be
PE> in Emacs source code and documentation -- but then that word
PE> is more likely to slip into places where it's not wanted.
I don't think that's a huge risk.
Ted
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Paul Eggert, 2013/07/06
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2013/07/06
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Paul Eggert, 2013/07/06
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2013/07/08
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Paul Eggert, 2013/07/08
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Juanma Barranquero, 2013/07/09
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Jambunathan K, 2013/07/09
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Juanma Barranquero, 2013/07/09
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/07/09
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Paul Eggert, 2013/07/09
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/07/09
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2013/07/09