From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Remove delete-overlay? Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:50:48 +0900 Organization: NEC Electronics Message-ID: References: <45E5F868.7000108@gmail.com> <87irdl3543.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172743261 25428 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2007 10:01:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:01:01 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 01 11:00:53 2007 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 4.50) id 1HMi5a-0007PQ-BO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:00:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMi5b-0007hs-Ir for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:00:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMi5H-0007hn-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:00:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMi5G-0007hb-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:00:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMi5F-0007hY-S2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:00:21 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HMi5F-0007Yu-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:00:21 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HMi4v-0004Lr-TB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:00:01 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:00:01 +0100 Original-Received: from miles.bader by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:00:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: fencepost.gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop Cancel-Lock: sha1:UhvyPaddduP6JSIWByNj4/ztKkE= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:67116 Archived-At: Daniel Brockman writes: > By the way, I agree with Lennart: while (to me) `delete' has > misleading connotations, `remove' is just right. What connotations are those? [For the most part, "remove" and "delete" are synonyms; I generally try to always pair add/remove and insert/delete, just to keep things tidy, but that's just me...] -Miles -- "Suppose He doesn't give a shit? Suppose there is a God but He just doesn't give a shit?" [George Carlin]