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24.0.50; Unify finder keyword usage -- emulation/emulations

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From: Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.0.50; Unify finder keyword usage -- emulation/emulations
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:04:24 +0200

There is currently both "emulation" and "emulations" occuring as finder
keywords. Wouldn't it be better if only one of them were used?
"Emulation" seems better to me, but "emulations" is used in majority of
cases.

   Štěpán

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6501: 24.0.50;
	Unify finder keyword usage -- emulation/emulations
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:57:07 +0300

> There is currently both "emulation" and "emulations" occuring as finder
> keywords. Wouldn't it be better if only one of them were used?
> "Emulation" seems better to me, but "emulations" is used in majority of
> cases.

"emulations" is a standard keyword defined in finder-known-keywords
in finder.el as "emulations of other editors" (though the subdirectory's
name is "emulation").  So we could change the keyword "emulation"
to "emulations" in 3 packages:

* hl-line.el::     highlight the current line.
* cua-base.el::    emulate CUA key bindings.
* pc-select.el::   emulate mark, cut, copy and paste from Motif.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

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From: Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 6501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6501: 24.0.50;
	Unify finder keyword usage -- emulation/emulations
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:59:09 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> writes:

>> There is currently both "emulation" and "emulations" occuring as finder
>> keywords. Wouldn't it be better if only one of them were used?
>> "Emulation" seems better to me, but "emulations" is used in majority of
>> cases.
>
> "emulations" is a standard keyword defined in finder-known-keywords
> in finder.el as "emulations of other editors" (though the subdirectory's
> name is "emulation").  So we could change the keyword "emulation"
> to "emulations" in 3 packages:
>
> * hl-line.el::     highlight the current line.
> * cua-base.el::    emulate CUA key bindings.
> * pc-select.el::   emulate mark, cut, copy and paste from Motif.

Yes. Or we could change the existing "emulations" to "emulation"...
That's why I didn't come up with a patch -- I would prefer "emulation",
but have no idea what success I'm going to have with such a proposal.
I can certainly live with "emulations" as well; let's just unify it.

Message #14 received at 6501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6501: 24.0.50;
	Unify finder keyword usage -- emulation/emulations
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:37:44 +0300

> Yes. Or we could change the existing "emulations" to "emulation"...
> That's why I didn't come up with a patch -- I would prefer "emulation",
> but have no idea what success I'm going to have with such a proposal.
> I can certainly live with "emulations" as well; let's just unify it.

Hmm, really it would be better to unify the keyword and the subdirectory.
But renaming the subdirectory would be much more trouble than renaming
keywords in 20 files.  So perhaps you are right that the keyword
"emulations" should be renamed to "emulation".

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

Message #19 received at 6501-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 6501-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6501: 24.0.50;
	Unify finder keyword usage -- emulation/emulations
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:02:55 -0400

> There is currently both "emulation" and "emulations" occuring as finder
> keywords. Wouldn't it be better if only one of them were used?
> "Emulation" seems better to me, but "emulations" is used in majority of
> cases.

"emulations" is what is specified in finder-known-keywords, so I
corrected the 3 files using "emulation".

Message #22 received at 6501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>, 6501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6501: 24.0.50;
	Unify finder keyword usage -- emulation/emulations
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:03:03 +0200

> Yes. Or we could change the existing "emulations" to "emulation"...
> That's why I didn't come up with a patch -- I would prefer "emulation",
> but have no idea what success I'm going to have with such a proposal.
> I can certainly live with "emulations" as well; let's just unify it.

I don't care much either way, but as for taste "emulation" seems to make
more sense than "emulations".


        Stefan

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