GNU bug report logs - #1381
23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 1381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com,
        emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:23:55 +0200

> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms <at> gnu.org>
> CC: drew.adams <at> oracle.com, 1381 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,
> 	bug-submit-list <at> donarmstrong.com, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org,
> 	bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:26:10 -0500
> 
> It may be a mistake to render @sc as upper case in Info
> because these words might get confused with variable names.

Maybe so, but the alternative (leave them in lower-case) is even
worse.
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