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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stefan@marxist.se, 16074@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16074: 24.3.50; enhancement request: Remove "pop" from command names & doc for `C-(u|x) C-SPC'
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 06:13:59 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <765ae33e-8f34-4d69-9fa2-00ad24356852@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<837e70h284.fsf@gnu.org>>

> > > A position is NOT popped off the ring.  That's what's
> > > wrong with all of these.  Likewise, the doc in the
> > > manuals.
> > >
> > > The enhancement request is to fix this wrong
> > > terminology wrt BOTH `global-mark-ring' and
> > > `mark-ring'.
> >
> > And `yank' doesn't yank, and `kill' doesn't kill literally.
> 
> And 'window' is not a window, it's a pane; and 'frame' is actually a
> window, etc. etc.

And all of those terms are standard Emacs
terminology, defined clearly and used
consistently.

That's not the case with this outlier use
of "pop", which is not a pop but is exactly
what Emacs calls "cycling" of a ring.

And again, it's about the doc also, not
just the function names.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-26 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <<831rxbjcv1.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-08-24 14:22     ` bug#16074: 24.3.50; enhancement request: Remove "pop" from command names & doc for `C-(u|x) C-SPC' Drew Adams
     [not found]   ` <<87y2zh94nz.fsf@gnus.org>
     [not found]     ` <<b2e6dd7c-d877-4e48-80eb-3c219eb1d4d7@default>
     [not found]       ` <<87a7bxm12m.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
     [not found]         ` <<837e70h284.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-08-26 13:13           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-12-06 15:46 Drew Adams
2016-04-29 14:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-24  5:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-08-24  6:28   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 14:20   ` Drew Adams
2019-08-25  5:48   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-25 16:14     ` Drew Adams
2019-08-25 20:09       ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-25 22:03         ` Drew Adams
2019-08-26  6:26         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-13 10:47           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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