From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Sieger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs learning curve Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:07:23 -0400 Message-ID: <87zkx512ac.fsf@gmail.com> References: <10954D02-E217-49F3-8824-757DA34074AB@gmail.com> <83zkxzakr0.fsf@gnu.org> <83pqyva8ms.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280761668 13851 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2010 15:07:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 15:07:48 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 02 17:07:46 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 1OfwcD-0004aW-Jh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:07:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50064 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OfwcC-00080U-UC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55403 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ofwc5-00080P-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:07:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ofwc4-0004Cj-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42584) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ofwc4-0004CN-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:07:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ofwc1-0004WN-5W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:07:33 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-68-161-33-43.ny325.east.verizon.net ([68.161.33.43]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:07:33 +0200 Original-Received: from sean.sieger by pool-68-161-33-43.ny325.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:07:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-68-161-33-43.ny325.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lLtZL/f9HjGf6tqrXk5XzdmBKmM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:128126 Archived-At: > Maybe we should make a concerted effort to change the terminology. > If someone could go through the manual and docstrings to replace > yank=>paste (and kill => cut|copy), and also find new names for > variables, functions, and commands (which will need aliases > so both the new and old names work), that would be a good start. > I'd be happy to review such a patch. Is it a joke? The patch? I didn't read it as such, Drew. Worry is evil.