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Re: inconsistent childish MS bashing


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: inconsistent childish MS bashing
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:32:50 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux)

On  5 Jan 2007, address@hidden wrote:

On 1/5/07, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Or on the other hand, we could just relax and think about something
>> important, like the latest cricket scores in Botswana.
>
> True.
>
> But FWIW, I also dislike the childish "MS-DOG" moniker every time I
> stumble upon it in Emacs.

I would suggest using "8.3" or "FILENAME.EXT" where appropriate
instead of "MS-DO[GS] filenames," for instance:

> ---- C:\bin\emacs\HEAD\lisp\finder.el
> ;; MS-DOG-type filenames.

Ted





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