From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs learning curve Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:10:45 +0300 Message-ID: <83zkx4ygne.fsf@gnu.org> References: <10954D02-E217-49F3-8824-757DA34074AB@gmail.com> <83zkxzakr0.fsf@gnu.org> <83pqyva8ms.fsf@gnu.org> <834ofczxv2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280776258 12361 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2010 19:10:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 19:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: levelhalom@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 02 21:10:55 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og0PX-0005YK-BA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:10:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40948 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Og0PW-00020H-Cd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:10:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40404 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Og0PO-0001zL-3i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og0PM-0005Og-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:10:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:38257) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og0PM-0005OV-Kc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:10:44 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L6J00K00H6LTZ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:10:43 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.247.236]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L6J00HVPH9U6VC0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:10:43 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:128151 Archived-At: > From: Lennart Borgman > Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:37:59 +0200 > Cc: levelhalom@gmail.com, Stefan Monnier , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > If someone needs a data point that terminology doesn't matter much, > > read the manual for Vim -- it uses non-standard terminology (including > > "yank", btw, and other weirdly named commands), and yet is very > > popular. > > I think that the situation is different for Vim. For example since it > uses "y" as a command prefix then talking about "yank" makes sense. For the same reason, it makes sense in Emacs, since we have C-y.