On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 01:26:11PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 16-Sep-2006, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > Checking a dictionary might be helpful - > > > > http://www.thefreedictionary.com/digraph > > http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mnemonic > > > > They're really different things (the RFC's intent is to suggest some > > instances for the latter; your patch is for the former). > > You seem to be pointing out that "digraph" does not mean what GNU > screen means by the word. I've retitled the bug, but if you really > care about this issue you should perhaps make a patch to screen that > fixes its use of the word "digraph" to match the dictionary meaning.
I've not found that submitting patches to screen's maintainers is worth spending any more time on. They're always ignored. The only time screen's maintainers bother to reply is if I'm discussing something other than a fix to their code. (This is experience from the past ten years). Back to the point - digraph and mnemonic aren't the same thing. It's nice that GNU screen has a use for the RFC, but lacking clarification of the adaptation, the reader is left with the wrong impression of the RFC's content. bye -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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