From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 11 16: 4:13 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9094D14F9B; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:04:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA62705; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:59:32 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:59:32 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Greg Lehey Cc: Bruce Evans , Sheldon Hearn , obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/grep/doc grep.1 Message-ID: <19991111235932.A62263@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <83676.942312329@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19991111110005.27784@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19991111110005.27784@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 11:00:05AM -0500 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 11:00:05AM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote: > Agreed, these euphemisms are ugly. But what are you saying about the > matter at hand? Should we capitalize function and command names at > the beginning of the sentence or not? I'm in favour of spelling them > correctly: case sensitivity should override English spelling > conventions. I concur with Greg. "The cat(1) command..." or "The cat(1) utility" (or even "The /etc/rc.conf file...") all read as being stilted and redundant. N -- If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis shoe stamping on a penguin's face forever. --- with apologies to George Orwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message