From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Visit New File menu item Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:26:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87oaaldk94.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87r3fhoslg.fsf@fastmail.fm> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457810851 26185 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2016 19:27:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 19:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 12 20:27:23 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aepC5-0007aM-B9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 20:27:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33163 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aepC4-00072u-Lp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:27:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53380) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aepBm-00070E-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:27:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aepBm-0000Eu-2B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:27:02 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49611) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aepB2-0008FA-GE; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:26:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aepB1-0000nJ-P8; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:26:15 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:30:26 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:201545 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Wouldn't "Create New File" make more sense? Or simply "New File"? > I agree, "Visit New File" is somewhat bizarre, and I'm not even entirely sure > what it should mean. "Create New File" is obvious. Some other programs nowadays say "New File" in the menu, and what it means seems to be the same as Emacs's concept of visiting. These include Audacity and Libre Office, ISTR. So I think "New File" will be clear in Emacs too. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.