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bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent
From: |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Jul 2013 16:54:13 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> On 07/06/2013 08:36 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> `unexist' has been in use for a couple of years, so this would break
>> people's Gnus files.
>
> Sorry, I thought 'unexist' was a more recent edition. In that case,
> how about if gnus-clean-old-newsrc automatically updates the old Gnus
> files from 'unexist' to 'nonexistent'? The code already does that for
> the old bad seplling 'unexists', so there's precedent for fixing
> spelling in this area.
Yeah, but `unexists' didn't last that long. :-)
Anyway, I just don't see much of an upside to changing the what symbols
are used in internal data structures. Calling them `gazonk' instead of
`unexist' makes as much sense. So there's a downside (people flipping
back and forth between versions will have to resync stuff), and the
upside remains to be demonstrated.
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- 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 <=
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Paul Eggert, 2013/07/08
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/07/09
- 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