# 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 with
Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org 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
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 the
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.
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
