I'm quite ambivalent about this rule, often disable it, and
would not mind removing it altogether.
I gather by "this rule" you mean the syntax-check rule. I agree
completely.
I doubt rms would agree to removing the original statement from
standards.texi, since it's a user-visible convent
Hello,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 05:42:09PM CET:
> Bruno Haible wrote:
> >> # Error messages should not start with a capital letter
> >
> > Why should error messages not start with a capital letter?
> I think this quote from the GCS is at the origin:
Yes, I think so too.
> --
Bruno Haible wrote:
>> # Error messages should not start with a capital letter
>
> Why should error messages not start with a capital letter?
> Often error messages should be translatable, and when they are, the
> guidelines from GNU gettext [1] apply:
> "Use entire sentences."
Many (most?) of t
Bruno Haible writes:
>> # Error messages should not start with a capital letter
>
> Why should error messages not start with a capital letter?
I don't know. I prefer if they are normal human language sentences
which typically start with a capital and ends with a dot. However in
some situations
> # Error messages should not start with a capital letter
Why should error messages not start with a capital letter?
Often error messages should be translatable, and when they are, the
guidelines from GNU gettext [1] apply:
"Use entire sentences."
And in normal English style, sentences start wi
