On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 09:08:44PM +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > That being said, I will not have time, nor the motivation to argue >> > over such a nuance, so feel free to reject the change. > >> Of course, this is just on top of the vim spell checker error as I >> wrote in the commit message... > >> Oh yes, and one more factual data in here: > >> lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn "e\.g\." . | wc -l >> 3447 > >> lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn " eg," | wc -l >> 18 > > That's not the issue - it's dropping the comma. It's either "e.g." or > "eg", the comma is a separate thing providing a break between clauses. > Strictly it should have the periods since it is an abbreviation but > their use is more vauge in fixed point text since they look ugly, the > thing that made me complain was that you dropped the comma as well as > substituting in the expanded version. I still do not get what point you are trying to make. Could you please provide evidence? Because really, this is the usage I have seen in projects out there all around, including the majority of the linux kernel. Here is some more data: grep -rn "e\.g\. " . | wc -l 2553 lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn "e\.g\.," . | wc -l 573 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
