From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3 Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:32:30 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87sjmdd6kx.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87wrbs5vsx.fsf@gnu.org> <4EA7EBCF.70207@harpegolden.net> <87sjmf7rip.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> <87obx33pss.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319784136 19611 80.91.229.12 (28 Oct 2011 06:42:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:42:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?'Llu=EDs'?= , 'Stefan Monnier' , 'David De La Harpe Golden' To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 28 08:42:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJg8n-0001q2-6Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:42:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53165 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJg8g-00072Z-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55539) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJg8b-0006qS-NA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:41:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJg8a-0005in-Dg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:41:57 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]:45574) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJg8a-0005ia-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:41:56 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DCBC6E805C; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:41:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74AEFAAB4B57; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:41:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:04:36 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.113.175.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145698 Archived-At: > When you copy a file in Dired, you don't think in terms of "splitting" the file. > Yes, copying a window means that some other window will be smaller, and in that > sense "split" has some mileage. But the confusion around "splitting" isn't > worth it, and "copy" lets you know that the new window is not just new, it's a > copy of the selected window (same buffer). I have no opinion about renaming `split-window' to something else. Since the original problem was not about renaming the function name prefix `split-window-', but about the ambiguity of the old function name suffixes `-horizontally' and `-vertically' and ungrammatical new suffixes `-above-each-other' and `-side-by-side', it should be noted that for consistency with the current definition of `split-window' and its `SIDE' argument, the equivalent names are: (split-window nil nil 'below) <=> (split-window-below) (split-window nil nil 'above) <=> (split-window-above) (split-window nil nil 'right) <=> (split-window-right) (split-window nil nil 'left) <=> (split-window-left)