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: describe-bindings: ^L, bad order, naming Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:45:15 +0000 Message-ID: <43786ABB.6080306@gnu.org> References: <4373BDF2.90106@student.lu.se> <5B24B171-FABB-40C4-90C8-248240E4EF8B@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131977234 28649 80.91.229.2 (14 Nov 2005 14:07:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:07:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 14 15:07:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EbeyB-0006x8-Mi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:06:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EbeyA-0006lz-Be for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:06:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EbczQ-0006QG-GY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:59:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EbcS2-00079i-E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:24:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ebbq2-0004K1-3w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:45:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.207.198.106] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ebbq2-0006AN-8W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:45:26 -0500 Original-Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id RFBH950F; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:40:45 -0000 Original-Received: from 192.168.111.63 ([192.168.111.63] helo=[192.168.111.63]) by ASSP-nospam ; 14 Nov 05 10:40:45 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: David Reitter In-Reply-To: <5B24B171-FABB-40C4-90C8-248240E4EF8B@gmail.com> 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:45949 Archived-At: David Reitter wrote: > But if you look up a term in a corpus such as Google's, you will want > to have a look at the distribution of its alternate, near-synonymous > variants. > Looking at NEAR-synonymous variants is not useful. It is confusing to use a term that does not quite mean what you intend it to. For example, the only term with significantly more Google matches than "key bindings" is "keyboard shortcuts", which, in other applications, refers specifically to key bindings that can be used to invoke menu commands.