Subject: bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 17:36:40 +0200

Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> writes:

> Recently Gnus added the 'unexist' flag with some
> code that deals with 'unexistent' articles.  If I
> understand the concept correctly, the usual
> spelling in English is 'nonexistent'.  Here's a
> proposed patch to use that spelling.

Well, it's probably "non-existent" or "unexisting".  However, I don't
really see much point in changing the spelling of a mark used internally
in Gnus stored-state files.  And `unexist' has been in use for a couple
of years, so this would break people's Gnus files.

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