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Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias?
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Basil L. Contovounesios |
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Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias? |
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Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:18:36 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
João Távora [2022-09-30 12:38 +0100] wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 12:33 PM Basil L. Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie>
> wrote:
>
> > I can only agree. Especially because there are a number of packages
> > starting with "el...", which makes misreading the package name as
> > "elgot" very easy (which is still how I pronounce the package when
> > speaking to this day).
>
> If we just changed the default language of Emacs to Greek, "Eglot" would
> automatically become a lot more palatable ;). Maybe for Emacs 30 🤞.
>
> Google translate doesn't get the pun,
No pun; the Greek root glot is equivalent to Latin lingua (and English
tongue), so to me "Eglot" isn't jarring at all and is sufficiently
descriptive.
> but it does tell me that "eglot" is latvian
> for "spruce up". So yeah, I was totally thinking latvian.
Language Sprucing Protocol has my vote.
--
Basil
Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/30
Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias?, Po Lu, 2022/09/30
Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias?, João Távora, 2022/09/30
Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias?, Daniel Martín, 2022/09/30