From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tumme menu in Dired, what to do about it?
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 01:20:54 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17525.44854.583158.162896@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85fyiyz4tv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
> >> Assuming tumme-tag-remove deletes tags, tumme-tag-delete sounds better.
> >
> > I trust your judgement on this one (my English skills are not good
> > enough).
>
> I am opposed. "tumme-tag-delete" sounds like it would delete tagged
> files, not like it would remove tags from files. "delete" sounds more
> appropriate with more physical entities than just tags. You can,
> after "deleting" a tag, put it right on afterwards again.
If it deleted files, I guess it would be called tumme-file-delete. After you
remove a file with 'rm', do you feel you can get it back again?
Delete is certainly not more appropriate with more physical entities. When
I move house, the removal men take my furniture, not the "deletion men".
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-25 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-13 0:42 Tumme menu in Dired, what to do about it? Mathias Dahl
2006-02-13 17:59 ` Juri Linkov
2006-02-13 20:24 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-02-14 0:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-13 20:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-13 20:25 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-24 18:54 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-24 21:45 ` Nick Roberts
2006-05-24 22:07 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-25 0:52 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-25 11:40 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-25 3:51 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-25 8:06 ` Nick Roberts
2006-05-25 8:11 ` Nick Roberts
2006-05-25 11:57 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-25 12:06 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-25 13:20 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2006-05-25 13:23 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-25 13:51 ` Nick Roberts
2006-05-25 13:58 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-25 13:59 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-26 2:21 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 10:33 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-27 3:36 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 22:24 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-26 22:35 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-25 13:13 ` Nick Roberts
2006-05-26 2:22 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 10:40 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-27 3:36 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-25 11:32 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-26 2:21 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 23:29 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-27 23:32 ` Richard Stallman
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