From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: C-h r and Images
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 11:10:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50869c34-8cb2-477b-a6a8-a393abb76d12@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878uzf5dvr.fsf@gmail.com>
> My motivation for the post was the thread in help list and a recurrent
> confusion between a frame and a window.
>
> It is easier to show
> - a window
> - a frame
> - a minibuffer
> - a header line
> - a mode line
>
> with a single shot rather than explain it in Glossary.
Great idea. (Not either/or, of course.)
> Btw, looking at Glossary for Window, I am surprised that I don't know
> what (q.v.) stands for. The Emacs crowd *was* scholarly and academic
> and it is to some extent even so today. But using things like q.v. etc
> and assuming that it will be understood by *lay* crowd is a bit too much
> for the asking...
Yes, it's silly, if not downright pretentious in this context.
What's more, it would be helpful to hyperlink directly to an explanation
of the term in question, rather than just saying "which see" or some such
English alternative to "q.v."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-02 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-02 14:14 C-h r and Images Jambunathan K
2013-09-02 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-02 15:28 ` Paul Eggert
2013-09-02 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-02 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-02 21:34 ` Paul Eggert
2013-09-03 2:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-03 3:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-09 10:03 ` Stephen Berman
2013-09-09 14:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-09 15:03 ` Stephen Berman
2013-09-09 15:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-09-09 15:06 ` Stephen Berman
2013-09-16 12:11 ` Per Starbäck
2013-09-02 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-02 15:44 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-02 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-02 17:31 ` Jambunathan K
2013-09-02 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-02 18:34 ` Jambunathan K
2013-09-02 18:10 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-09-02 19:37 ` Juri Linkov
2013-09-02 20:16 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-03 2:37 ` Kanthimathi R
2013-09-03 8:56 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-09-03 14:41 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-03 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <<83txi3cih5.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-09-02 17:02 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-02 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<878uzf5dvr.fsf@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <<50869c34-8cb2-477b-a6a8-a393abb76d12@default>
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[not found] ` <<83ioyhdhg7.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-09-03 16:34 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-03 20:37 ` Juri Linkov
2013-09-04 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-04 22:38 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-09-04 22:41 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-09-05 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-06 10:53 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-09-06 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <<372ba59c-42be-463c-a69f-6b910d8cc40e@default>
[not found] ` <<83r4d7cecc.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-09-02 18:15 ` Drew Adams
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