From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Capitalisation and good taste ? Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:46:23 -0500 Message-ID: <31946.1326210383@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <87k4509rc1.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> <87aa5wcitv.fsf@norang.ca> <23144.1326172391@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> <8762gk9l27.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> <24991.1326181044@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> <87ty4361sn.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48221) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rkdu7-0005Wc-0d for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:46:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rkdu5-0007PV-TR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:46:26 -0500 Received: from g5t0009.atlanta.hp.com ([15.192.0.46]:29486) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rkdu5-0007PR-Pr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:46:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message from pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (=?us-ascii?Q?=3D=3Futf-?= =?us-ascii?Q?8=3FQ=3FFran=3DC3=3DA7ois=3F=3D?= Pinard) of "Tue\, 10 Jan 2012 09\:59\:52 EST." <87ty4361sn.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?us-ascii?Q?=3D=3Futf-8=3FQ=3FFran=3DC3=3DA7?= =?us-ascii?Q?ois=3F=3D?= Pinard Cc: Bernt Hansen , nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Fran=C3=A7ois Pinard wrote: > Nick Dokos writes: >=20 > > Fran=C3=A7ois Pinard wrote: > >> P.P.S. How about amending the manual for consistent capitalization? > >>=20 >=20 > > Knock yourself out! ;-) >=20 > I've absolutely nothing against doing that little work myself (that one > is easy enough!), besides the idea that I might be working against the > crowd. If nobody objects that I normalize everything (every #+ thing) > to lower case, I'll happily do it. If the only result of a patch would > be to start a flame war (or just loosing my time), I'd better stay > quiet... >=20 > Always easier to formally ask permission once you informally got it! >=20 OK - I'm not the one to ask permission from, but I doubt very much that a flame war will erupt because of a patch to make things in the manual more uniform (of course, there will have to be a notation somewhere, if one is not there already, that capitalization does not matter in these cases: it's easy to infer that when all the examples are in various forms of capitalization, but harder when everything is uniform - as you can see, uniformity is not an unmitigated blessing :-) ). Nick