From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Remove delete-overlay? Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:35:07 +0100 Message-ID: <45E6AC5B.20502@gmail.com> References: <45E5F868.7000108@gmail.com> <87irdl3543.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172745388 1983 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2007 10:36:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:36:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 01 11:36:19 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 1HMidy-0007gJ-1u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:36:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMidz-0005aq-FJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:36:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMid7-0004ca-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:35:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMid6-0004a9-Cc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:35:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMid6-0004Zt-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:35:20 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HMid5-0004cc-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:35:19 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:61477 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HMid3-0000cw-5i; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:35:18 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000719-0, 2007-02-28), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HMid3-0000cw-5i. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HMid3-0000cw-5i 229632e3377cc799b305277e359eed15 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:67122 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > Daniel Brockman writes: >> By the way, I agree with Lennart: while (to me) `delete' has >> misleading connotations, `remove' is just right. > > What connotations are those? > > [For the most part, "remove" and "delete" are synonyms; I generally try > to always pair add/remove and insert/delete, just to keep things tidy, > but that's just me...] Since I am non-english I had to consult a dictionary now: - delete: to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing - remove: to change the location, position -- but also to get rid of, eliminate I think the first meaning of "remove" is what our teachers tell us.