On 2025-12-26 11:31, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
Paul Eggert <[email protected]> writes:
The Emacs CONTRIBUTE file says:
We prefer American English both in doc strings and in the manuals.
That includes both spelling (e.g., "behavior", not "behaviour") and
the convention of leaving 2 spaces between sentences.
This preference extends to identifier spellings.
That's not obvious. Could you add this clarification to the CONTRIBUTE
file?
Sure, done by installing the attached. CC'ing to emacs-devel.
From ca303033a649e3ec3a9ecb01b16c1fa92be5df6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:21:22 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] * CONTRIBUTE: American English in messages & IDs.
---
CONTRIBUTE | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE
index ed42c4b8116..9bbadb0135d 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTE
+++ b/CONTRIBUTE
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ command to index them; for instance, use @vindex for variables and
https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Predefined-Indices.html
or run the shell command 'info "(texinfo)Predefined Indices"'.
-We prefer American English both in doc strings and in the manuals.
+We prefer American English in doc strings, manuals, messages, and identifiers.
That includes both spelling (e.g., "behavior", not "behaviour") and
the convention of leaving 2 spaces between sentences.
--
2.51.0
