From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another VC terminology change?
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:59:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IgMv9-0001FU-5f@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071011175016.GB8243@thyrsus.com> (esr@thyrsus.com)
Perhaps you missed my longer email on that issue. I don't see a problem
there; in fact I would actively resist inventing a new term because I
think fuileset means the same thing in both places.
I wish that were true, but it isn't. In VC, a fileset is the
set of files marked in a dired buffer. This is a transitory set.
In the Filesets node, filesets are semipermanent entities
that you define with filesets-add-buffer or other mechanisms.
It will be natural for the reader to suppose that "fileset" refers to
the same sort of thing everywhere it is used in the manual.
But it doesn't, and that is a serious problem.
We cannot leave things this way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-12 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-11 14:30 Another VC terminology change? Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-11 17:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 18:05 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-11 20:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 20:19 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-12 1:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-12 0:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-12 1:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-12 15:23 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-12 16:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-12 16:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-12 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-12 21:28 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-13 3:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 17:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-11 17:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-12 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-10-12 15:59 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-10-12 20:02 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-13 6:41 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-14 21:42 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-15 16:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-15 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-15 21:37 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-18 20:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-19 21:42 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-21 7:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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