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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	Keith David Bershatsky <esq@lawlist.com>
Cc: mbork@mbork.pl, 22873@debbugs.gnu.org, johnw@gnu.org,
	akioburns@icloud.com, 17684@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#17684: bug#22873: #22873 (multiple fake cursors); and, #17684 (crosshairs / fill-column).
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 10:00:53 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <499fedad-0bce-457e-9e57-2aec32115176@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blhlrk79.fsf@gnus.org>

> > Drew Adams contacted me several months ago and requested that I change
> > `crosshairs.el` to anything else since he has a crosshairs library on
> > wiki, and he didn't want any potential confusion.  There is nothing
> > better I could think of as a name for the 17684 Lisp library and since
> > crosshairs goes against the wishes of Drew, I just went ahead and
> > changed the name to +-mode.el, because the plus sign looks like a
> > crosshairs, and I use the plus sign as the mode-line minor-mode
> > lighter.
> 
> Well, +-mode is not acceptable as an Emacs library name, unfortunately.
> The concept is usually "cross hairs", so cross-hairs.el would be fine.

I object to cross-hairs.el, as well.  Just as confusing
as using the same name, crosshairs.el.  (Sometimes less
confusing, sometimes more confusing - it introduces
another way to confuse the two).

And "the concept is usually 'cross hairs'" is wrong.
What concept?  Application of the term "cross hairs" to
this context is something I did, but the indication of
row and column by two orthogonal lines through the cell
is not typically called "cross hairs".

X and Y axes in analytic geometry aren't called "cross
hairs".

I take it as a compliment that "cross hairs" fits this
Emacs use case, but using that term for this doesn't
spring to mind spontaneously, I think.

I have no objection to referring to the feature/behavior
as showing cross hairs.  My objection is only about the
library name.  If you want to stay with the notion of
cross hairs, yaybe use a synonym for the library name,
such as "reticule".  Or maybe use an abbreviation -
crshairs.el or some such.

The aim should be to find a name that won't cause users
to confuse the two libraries.  That's all.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-01 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-03 20:36 bug#17684: 24.4.50; Feature Request -- Vertical Lines to the Left of and Through Characters Keith David Bershatsky
2018-07-09  5:28 ` bug#17684: #22873 (multiple fake cursors); and, #17684 (crosshairs) Keith David Bershatsky
2018-11-11  3:36 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2018-11-11 16:51 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2018-11-21  4:53 ` bug#17684: #22873 (multiple fake cursors); and, #17684 (crosshairs / fill-column) Keith David Bershatsky
2018-12-14  7:11 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-04-09  4:03 ` bug#17684: #22873 (multiple fake cursors); and, #17684 (crosshairs) Keith David Bershatsky
2019-04-21  5:15 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-04-29  1:21 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-06-08 23:44 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-06-16  8:07 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-06-24  2:25 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-06-30  5:42 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-07-31 19:39 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-10-18  1:12 ` bug#17684: #22873 (multiple fake cursors); and, #17684 (crosshairs / fill-column) Keith David Bershatsky
2019-11-18  6:58 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2020-01-27  7:39 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2020-05-02 20:50 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2020-10-01  3:00   ` bug#17684: bug#22873: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-01  3:54     ` Keith David Bershatsky
2020-10-01 16:21       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-01 17:00         ` Drew Adams [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-03-01 18:44 bug#22873: 25.1.50; Feature Request -- Multiple Cursors (built-in support) Keith David Bershatsky
2016-03-03  6:30 ` bug#22873: Can we support multiple Cursors? John Wiegley
     [not found] ` <m2h9gocbu9.fsf@newartisans.com>
2016-03-03  6:54   ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]   ` <8760x49hly.fsf@mbork.pl>
2016-03-03 11:20     ` Richard Stallman
     [not found]     ` <E1abRJS-0002hO-PV@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-03-03 15:05       ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]       ` <87ziuf8uun.fsf@mbork.pl>
2016-03-04  9:19         ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-04 23:16 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-03-05  6:59   ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-09  6:27 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-03-09 16:03   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-09 18:30 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-03-11  7:18 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-03-14 18:35 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-03-14 18:49   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-14 22:38 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-03-16  8:00 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-03-18  4:00 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-03-26 23:58   ` John Wiegley
2016-03-29  3:45 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-03-29 14:58   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-29 17:26 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2017-06-25 22:09 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2017-07-30 17:39 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2017-08-11  0:00 ` bug#22873: Can we support multiple cursors? Keith David Bershatsky
2017-08-13 18:19 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2017-08-13 18:36   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-14  3:20 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2017-08-14 15:01   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-14 20:35 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2017-12-27 17:13 ` bug#22873: #22873 (multiple fake cursors); and, #17684 (crosshairs) Keith David Bershatsky
2017-12-27 23:55   ` John Wiegley
2017-12-28  1:20 ` bug#22873: #22873 (multiple fake cursors) Keith David Bershatsky
2017-12-28  1:26 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2018-07-17 19:09 ` bug#22873: #22873 (multiple fake cursors); and, #17684 (crosshairs) Keith David Bershatsky
2018-08-29  6:39 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-05-03  0:48 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-05-06 18:39 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-05-28  8:31 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-06-02  7:29 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-07-16 19:28 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-07-23  6:01 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-08-23  5:19 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2019-10-17 21:08 ` bug#22873: #22873 (multiple fake cursors); and, #17684 (crosshairs / fill-column) Keith David Bershatsky
2020-03-04  9:03 ` Keith David Bershatsky

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