From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Danilo Segan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Ok, I have had it. A proposal for wizards. Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:27:50 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <86u13e5st5.fsf@avet.kvota.net> References: <2719-Fri02Jan2004112055+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073054214 8977 80.91.224.253 (2 Jan 2004 14:36:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 02 15:36:52 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcQQ0-0001rD-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:36:52 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcQQ0-0002cr-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:36:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AcRKv-0005MS-TV for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:35:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AcRJh-00059E-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:34:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AcRJ9-00054L-VE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:34:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.244.195.230] (helo=avet.kvota.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AcRJ7-00053R-G2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:33:50 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 1990 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Jan 2004 14:27:50 -0000 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <2719-Fri02Jan2004112055+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 02 Jan 2004 11:20:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18957 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18957 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > > Last time we discussed something similar, the overall consensus was > to call these ``saints'', not ``wizards''. > Just to point out that Gnome (GNU Desktop environment) is standardizing on "assistants" instead (mostly because everything else like 'druid', 'wizard' is hard to translate to other languages). Even though Emacs UI is not translated, if there's no any practical reason not to use the same terminology, I think 'assistant' would be a good choice. Emacs manual seems to contain only one occurence of word "assistant", so I don't see a terminology clash anywhere. Cheers, Danilo