From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 176 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:36:07 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20071022133607.GD19334@thyrsus.com> References: <20071021192054.AD7BE7393E@grelber.thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193060117 18865 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2007 13:35:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:35:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 22 15:35:18 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IjxR7-0000ZD-8b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:35:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjxQz-0004iR-Cl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjxQx-0004iM-Q7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjxQw-0004i8-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjxQw-0004i5-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjxQv-0000jw-Ta for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: by snark (Postfix, from userid 23) id 03D2B3807C; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:36:07 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071021192054.AD7BE7393E@grelber.thyrsus.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81452 Archived-At: 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. -- Eric S. Raymond