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bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:05:29 +0200 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>, <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:46:59 -0800
>
> > > I'd suggest not making CAR and CDR uppercase.
> >
> > They are not in uppercase, they are in "small caps" typeface (@sc in
> > Texinfo markup). You are reading the Info manual, where @sc is
> > rendered as uppercase, but in the printed manual it looks differently.
>
> I see. But is that normal for Emacs terminology? See what I wrote about cons,
> buffer, window, frame, symbol, etc.
>
> If this is intentional, feel free to close the bug. It seems odd to me,
> though -
> to me, these are normal Emacs terms.
These were in the manual since a long time ago, so I'll let Richard
answer this.
- bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc, Drew Adams, 2008/11/19
- bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/19
- bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/20
- bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc, Drew Adams, 2008/11/20
- bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/20
- bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc, Drew Adams, 2008/11/20
- bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc, Yavor Doganov, 2008/11/21
- bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc, Drew Adams, 2008/11/21