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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105834: Capitalize non-function content words in menu item strings. |
| Date: | Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:31:17 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> Why do we do that? I guess one answer can be "because other GUI apps do
>> it", but then the question simply becomes: why do they do it?
> They follow ill-defined, prevalent, incoherent conventions:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_publication_titles
That's also my impression. If that's the only reason, then I don't see
why Emacs should follow that bad habit.
Stefan
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