From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: File menu changes (suggestions) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:19:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119864935 26462 80.91.229.2 (27 Jun 2005 09:35:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:35:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 27 11:35:31 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmq1a-0004Y4-TH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:35:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmq9C-0008KP-Sy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:43:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmpxa-0004rn-Ms for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:31:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmpxX-0004qj-VA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:31:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmpxW-0004lr-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:31:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dmpqn-0001hK-Pa; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:24:22 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5R9K1ch024560; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:20:01 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FEB5DDE24; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:20:27 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:06:54 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) 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:39640 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39640 Miles Bader writes: > Jason Rumney writes: >> I agree. Unsplit Windows at least conveys the notion that it does the >> opposite of Split Window. > > But it doesn't do the opposite of split-window... That's a rather pedantic definition of opposite, and dwelling on such pedantry when choosing menu names results in confusion for less experienced users, because you're removing helpful associations between menu entries in return for absolute correctness.