From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tumme menu in Dired, what to do about it? Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:23:09 +0200 Message-ID: <85u07exmpu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <7dbe73ed0602121642h79944040vb252a904c7af93a5@mail.gmail.com> <7dbe73ed0605241154n70d2a2d7u84603fb287b35582@mail.gmail.com> <17525.26010.540441.560810@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <7dbe73ed0605250457j7c9dbbf6ubec96c45cb1daa0f@mail.gmail.com> <85fyiyz4tv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17525.44854.583158.162896@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148563444 23954 80.91.229.2 (25 May 2006 13:24:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:24:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Mathias Dahl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 25 15:24:01 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjFoh-0002nT-Sq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 15:23:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjFoh-00074H-9T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FjFoW-00074C-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FjFoV-00073w-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:23:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjFoU-00073t-Ts for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:23:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FjFtA-0008Ft-Lq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:28:32 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FjFoN-0000ga-Kj; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:23:36 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 92F1C1C4D3B3; Thu, 25 May 2006 15:23:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Nick Roberts In-Reply-To: <17525.44854.583158.162896@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Fri, 26 May 2006 01:20:54 +1200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:55268 Archived-At: Nick Roberts writes: > > >> Assuming tumme-tag-remove deletes tags, tumme-tag-delete sounds better. > > > > > > I trust your judgement on this one (my English skills are not good > > > enough). > > > > I am opposed. "tumme-tag-delete" sounds like it would delete tagged > > files, not like it would remove tags from files. "delete" sounds more > > appropriate with more physical entities than just tags. You can, > > after "deleting" a tag, put it right on afterwards again. > > If it deleted files, I guess it would be called tumme-file-delete. After you > remove a file with 'rm', do you feel you can get it back again? > > Delete is certainly not more appropriate with more physical > entities. When I move house, the removal men take my furniture, not > the "deletion men". That is because the physical entity remains and does not get destroyed. And tags don't get destroyed, you can put them right on afterwards. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum