GNU bug report logs - #1476
23.0.60; spelling of (un)writeable should be (un)writable

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:10:04 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1476: 23.0.60; spelling of (un)writeable should be (un)writable
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:46:27 -0500

> FWIW the OED says both are fine:

That doesn't make it undesriable to try and only use one of the two.
`grep' seems to indicate that `writable' is used a lot more right now
in Emacs.  Google seems to think that the same is true for the part of
the Internet about which it cares.
So I agree that it's good to change occurences of "writeable" to
"writable".

It's not a high priority, tho.  So let's only do it when it's easy and
harmless (e.g. not for global variables and things like that).


        Stefan
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