From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Etymology of `visiting' files Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:48:11 +0200 Message-ID: <871t1zfmus.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000> References: <87y447oaaw.fsf@rudiments.goosenet.in> <874m6vlefc.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1470660563 14639 195.159.176.226 (8 Aug 2016 12:49:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 12:49:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 08 14:49:20 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bWjzK-0000ma-8a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:49:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57165 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWjzF-0008QP-D1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 08:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43541) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWjyd-0008QK-Ce for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 08:48:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWjyZ-0006Jm-7y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 08:48:18 -0400 Original-Received: from srv4.ns-domain-hosting.de ([178.63.89.203]:36198) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWjyZ-0006JO-1i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 08:48:15 -0400 X-No-Relay: not in my network Original-Received: from bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000 (p4FECC326.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.236.195.38]) by srv4.ns-domain-hosting.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8CB1F15E005D for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 14:48:13 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <874m6vlefc.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (pjb@informatimago.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 178.63.89.203 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111077 Archived-At: > When you visit a friend's home, you enter it, you can look around, an= d > you may touch and change something (move a vase from the table to the > console) or not, and then leave the house. >=20 > Same with files. Wonderful and convincing (or should I simply say "perfect"?) explanation, Pascal! I really like that. But now my sense of sense has been whetted: Why are all the functions for visiting files called "find-file-..." rather than "visit-file-..."??? (Surely they do nothing in the way of finding out where a file is?) Can we please rectify this for future generations? ;-) Best regards, Florian --=20 Florian von Savigny Melanchthonstr. 41 33615 Bielefeld