Re: Rename `eww' to `web'

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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    Why refuse the right of someone to name a package his own
    quirky/creative way.  Quirky names are easy to remember.

Alas, it is not so.  Quirky names are easy to forget, especially when
there are lots of them and you only rarely think about them.  Especially
if you're getting old.

Moreover, users who have never have seen the quirky name have no
chance of guessing it.

    eww is not a lisp library but a functional package.

The fact that this is not only for Lisp programmers makes the issue
more important.

    Just provide means - a toolbar icon and a key binding - to start the
    web.  This way the user never has to do a 

Emacs has lots of key bindings, and people remember only the ones they
use often.  The command name is supposed to be easier to remember than
the key binding.  It is impossible to find natural key bindings for
all the commands of Emacs, but we can give them all natural command
names.

Web browsing may be important enough to justify a toolbar icon.
But the command name should be natural too.  Ideally a command
should have the name you would guess it has (if you didn't know).

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