From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: send-invisible is not an obvious name
Date: 22 Oct 2002 15:59:13 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo7kgbm01q.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E183ssb-0003We-00@pot.cnuce.cnr.it>
Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org> writes:
> I had to enter my password and since I knew that a command
> existed to do that I tried to gess its name, to no avail. I had to do a
> search for `password' in the manual to find it.
I'd say that's what you're supposed to do, and if you could find it by
searching the manual, then things are working properly. We can't encode
documentation into all function names!
> - the send-invisible command should have at least the two aliases above
I disagree.
> - it should be in the comint menu (I do not use menus myself, so I do
> not know whether it is already there) with a comprehensible name
That would be reasonable; however I think `Send input invisibly' (or
`without echoing') is a pretty good title for this menu entry...
-Miles
--
I have seen the enemy, and he is us. -- Pogo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-22 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-21 9:19 send-invisible is not an obvious name Francesco Potorti`
2002-10-22 5:27 ` Miles Bader
2002-10-22 6:51 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-10-22 6:59 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-10-22 7:09 ` Francesco Potorti`
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