From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,fd4fc3d2b22df500 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.180.93.134 with SMTP id cu6mr2462441wib.5.1357876442976; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:54:02 -0800 (PST) Path: o9ni5955wio.1!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!82.197.223.108.MISMATCH!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!85.12.40.130.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nrc-news.nrc.ca!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ? Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:19:01 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <85623bsosa.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="585248293da7adcafb924c79c19cf5ec"; logging-data="19379"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/X64Rh/sFzAUKWWGU/xzXWLV2WS11eFyc=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2Iw7DLwN1ORNRNkxWtcFfWUvoeY= sha1:1fUTcHB/hELrFpe/HoQyZGKLpYc= Content-Type: text/plain Date: 2013-01-05T18:19:01+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake writes: > Simon Wright writes: > >> Rod Kay writes: >> >>> The idea is to only capitalise the noun parts of the procedure >>> name. It's a minor thing I guess, yet I find code a little easier to >>> read when used. >> >> I like my IDE (Emacs) to capitalise for me, and this would need so >> many case exceptions that it'd become impractical. > > Unless you add a dictionary of verbs/nouns. Maybe automated lookup > into the on-line OED - do they have an API? A lot of work for very > little gain! But it would be cool if it worked :) :-) > Which reminds me; we need a simpler keybinding for "make this word a > case exception". C-c C-y is simple enough. I agree that C-c C-M-y is a bit complex (though inherited from 4.01): perhaps C-c M-y ?