Hi Kazunobu and All, 2017-5-30(Tue) 16:00:13 UTC+9 Kazunobu Kuriyama: > 2017-05-30 2:58 GMT+09:00 Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]>: > > > > > > Because I heard it on issue #1733 > > > > At the sadly neglected Vim wiki, we chose "Vim" and "gvim" despite > > > > the inconsistency. The "Vim" spelling fits modern usage such as in > > > > "Python" and many other packages. But then "Gvim" is rather weird, > > > > and "gVim" is very weird. > > > > While "Vim" is a name, "gvim" is a command. Vim can also be a command, > > thus then it's written as "vim". Depends on the context. > > > > I do think proper use of capitalization that depends on the context is much > more important than unification in appearance attained by context-free > substitution. > > > > > I agree that "Gvim" and "gVim" are a bit strange. "GVim" is weird. > > Just using "gvim" seems best. > > > > That's quite understandable. But then, what should we do with the all lower > case "gvim" when we need to write a sentence beginning with the word spelled > that way, or when we need to include it in the title of an article? > > > For those cases, no matter how weird it looks, I even think "GVim" is > suitable; in addition to making the initial "g" capital as per English > orthography, the capitalization of the second letter "v" would clearly show > what the word stems from (i.e., GVim is Vim); the succession of the two > different capital letters G and V could be helpful to distinguish "gvim" from > words such as gnome or gnu in pronunciation (i.e., GVim never appears to be > pronounced the same way as Vim). > > > Probably, what we need while we are at this issue would be not to specify > things helpful to write down regular expressions to have a unified spelling > for "gvim" in the documents but to establish a style guide for authors and > contributors who want to refer to Vim that is built with a dedicated > graphical user interface, with a concise way in their document. > > > I wrote a bit my view on the capitalization of the word "gvim", but the point > does not lie in its form "GVim." Actually I'm open to any form of > capitalization as long as authors and contributors won't be puzzled at it > when they write a sentence beginning with 'gvim'. That's the point. Even > "Gvim" is okay to me since it is the class name of GUI Vim instances running > on X11 (= value of a property known as WM_CLASS which is to be registered at > startup for inter-cllient communication between X11 clients, in particular > the window manager on one end).
+1 I fully approve of your opinion. -- Best regards, Hirohito Higashi (h_east) -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
