From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 176
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:36:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071022133607.GD19334@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071021192054.AD7BE7393E@grelber.thyrsus.com>
emacs-devel-request@gnu.org <emacs-devel-request@gnu.org>:
> What do yo think of my other suggestion, which is to drop the word
> `fileset' in documentation where the reference is to a list, as in
> `vc-svn-diff'?
I don't think the mere plural 'files' effectively conveys the idea
that these things are treated atomically as a group rather than sliced
and diced in parallel as in old VC.
Which is the reasonm I started using the term 'filset' to begin with.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-22 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20071021192054.AD7BE7393E@grelber.thyrsus.com>
2007-10-22 13:36 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2007-10-22 14:45 ` Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 176 Miles Bader
2007-10-22 19:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-22 21:52 ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-22 15:45 ` Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 176 Stefan Monnier
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