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bug#10150: deactive->inactive, inactivate->deactivate spelling fixes
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Štěpán Němec |
Subject: |
bug#10150: deactive->inactive, inactivate->deactivate spelling fixes |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:17:45 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:38:47 +0100
Paul Eggert wrote:
> Package: emacs
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
>
> Standard English uses the adjective "inactive" and the verb
> "deactivate"; "deactive" and "inactivate" are solecisms.
> Emacs is pretty good about following standard usage but departs
> from it in a few places in the API. Here's a patch. Since we're
> in a feature freeze this should wait until after 24.1 is out.
By renaming functions and variables without any kind of deprecation
procedure (cf. `make-obsolete' and friends), you'd leave users with
customisation and third-party libraries stopping working, with no clue
about what happened. I don't think GNU Emacs maintainer standards have
sunk that low (certainly not for hooks and other identifiers of
immediate interest to all users).
I think this caveat applies to some of your other recent patches as
well, I haven't been following them closely.
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Štěpán