From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 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: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 07:20:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c215ef6c-aeeb-4cc8-9ac2-68492c07343a@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmm5ZZZjR6Ua0POYcHTcwubTSnEwzSTZoGUHN42fgWf8aw@mail.gmail.com>
> >> The names and doc of the commands bound to `C-u C-SPC' and `C-x C-
> >> SPC' are misleading, in that the commands do not really "pop" the
> >> marker rings. They cycle the rings. Markers are not removed from
> >> the rings by such "popping".
> >>
> >> Emacs uses the verb "cycle" for this kind of behavior elsewhere.
> >> The same terminology should be used here also. We should rename
> >> `pop-global-mark' and rephrase the doc.
> >
> > Yes, renaming here seems like a good idea.
>
> How about the attached patch?
Maybe I missed something when perusing the patch,
but it looks like it addresses only the global
mark ring (`C-x C-SPC'), not also the (local)
mark ring (`C-u C-SPC').
The enhancement request is about both. The doc
for both speaks of "pop" instead of cycle.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-06 15:46 bug#16074: 24.3.50; enhancement request: Remove "pop" from command names & doc for `C-(u|x) C-SPC' 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 [this message]
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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2019-08-24 14:22 ` Drew Adams
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2019-08-26 13:13 ` Drew Adams
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