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Re: Menu entries - sentence or title case?
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Sean Whitton |
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Re: Menu entries - sentence or title case? |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Dec 2022 15:15:54 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Hello,
On Tue 20 Dec 2022 at 10:13PM +02, Eshel Yaron wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Most of the built-in menu entries in Emacs seem to use title case, e.g.
> "Instrument Function for Debugging" and "Evaluate Buffer" in
> emacs-lisp-mode-menu. On the other hand, some menus use sentence case.
> For example, in gnus-summary-thread-menu we have "Find all messages in
> thread" and in flymake-menu there's "Go to log buffer".
>
> Is there a preference/convention in Emacs of using one style or the
> other?
>
> Mostly I'm asking because I noticed that I have a mix of sentence case
> and title case entries in sweeprolog-menu in sweeprolog.el and looking
> to fix that I thought it would be nice to go for consistency with Emacs.
AIUI title case is preferred in American English, which is what Emacs
uses.
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Sean Whitton