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: File menu changes (suggestions) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:19:43 +0900 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119346199 30412 80.91.229.2 (21 Jun 2005 09:29:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:29:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 21 11:29:51 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dkf4U-0002rk-9Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:29:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkfAs-0007GG-Bm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:36:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DkfAB-0007AX-Ly for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:35:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DkfA1-00074z-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkfA0-0006z3-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.192] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dkexu-0008Kx-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so34948wri for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:19:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Kjw2zE7njbZDd6KcpMwyf9KGSV31Ff1yOJ9FyowVdyiCPyYCeS9TlBXrQ3b4NNif+eEbNq10B3/z17jWxt0qqo3Nshh9iIT/L9KKLRCdWJ+e6wdVwJ3v/UzDfggx/NMCWOPb1tsz7EZaOM0F36RXLY1wyt0W/ZCbHywT1j7tjxQ= Original-Received: by 10.54.59.6 with SMTP id h6mr1205wra; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.31 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Mathias Dahl In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:39222 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39222 On 6/21/05, Mathias Dahl wrote: > > Another possible renaming I forgot to mention is "Split Window". The > > window is not split to result in a single window with a > > divider. >=20 > I do not agree. "Split Window" is in my opinion a very good > description of what that command does. Indeed. Morever, it gives important information about the way the command works (which something like "new window" would _not_ do, and might actually be more confusing for that reason). Remember, the goal is not to be perfectly consistent with other apps, merely to provide a reasonable compromise that will help users of other apps adapt quickly and painlessly to emacs, and hopefully lead to them becoming skillful users of Emacs. -Miles --=20 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.