From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: how to format an error?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020114102101.14027J-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C426042.8050807@cygnus.com>
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Given the attached, which is the correct way of formatting an error message:
>
> This is an error message.
> this is an error message.
> This is an error message
> this is an error message
I suggest the last variant. It goes with the GNU coding standards
except for the capitalization. But capitalization is
language-specific (e.g., in German, all nouns are capitalized), and it
was recently discovered in Emacs development that a 100% adherence to
the capitalization rule you cited produces wrong results in some
cases. Most of the messages don't need caps, so I think losing that
is the best alternative which is simple enough to adher to.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-14 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-13 20:36 Andrew Cagney
2002-01-14 0:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-01-14 2:37 ` Richard Earnshaw
2002-01-14 3:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-02 8:09 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-02 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-03 19:22 ` Andrew Cagney
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