From: Udyant Wig <udyant@rudiments.goosenet.in>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Etymology of `visiting' files
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 15:24:31 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y447oaaw.fsf@rudiments.goosenet.in> (raw)
What motivated the choice of the verb `visiting'?
From reading some of the relevant section in the Emacs and Elisp
manuals, I understand the process the verb names. However, I wanted to
find some reasoning or discussion about the choice of verb; my own
expectation would have been something like `edit' or `load', but that
would be looking through the lens provided by recent editing systems.
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Udyant Wig
next reply other threads:[~2016-08-08 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-08 9:54 Udyant Wig [this message]
2016-08-08 10:53 ` Etymology of `visiting' files Pascal J. Bourguignon
2016-08-08 12:36 ` Yuri Khan
2016-08-08 12:37 ` Narendra Joshi
2016-08-08 12:48 ` Florian v. Savigny
2016-08-09 5:17 ` Udyant Wig
2016-08-08 13:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-08-09 5:37 ` Udyant Wig
2016-08-09 15:37 ` Barry Margolin
2016-08-10 9:24 ` Etymology of `visiting' files, and for that matter, of `finding' them Florian v. Savigny
2016-08-08 19:36 ` Etymology of `visiting' files Robert Thorpe
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2016-08-09 6:42 Udyant Wig
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