From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:36:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040826233657.1a98b3f4@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040826221902.GB3705@sympatico.ca>
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:19:02 -0400 purslow@sympatico.ca wrote:
| 040826 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > it'll pick up certain mistakes and make them really stand out:
| > http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/gentoo-syntax.png
| > Suggestions, patches, etc welcomed.
|
| very pretty'n'all & mb this is a complaint re Portage,
| but 'licence' is not a mistake: it is the way non-Americans spell
| 'license'. in fact, the English distinguish 'licence' (noun) from
| 'license' (verb). Canadians follow English usage when they think about
| it& American when they don't ... (smile)
Well that's the point. I speak Real English (TM), so I keep on screwing
up the LICENSE variable by spelling it correctly. In the context of an
ebuild, using the non-USian spelling *is* a mistake.
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-26 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-20 19:51 [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs Ciaran McCreesh
2004-08-26 18:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-08-26 22:19 ` purslow
2004-08-26 22:36 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2004-08-27 1:22 ` purslow
2004-08-27 1:30 ` Jon Portnoy
2004-09-02 0:03 ` [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs, ChangeLogs Ciaran McCreesh
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