From: florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Etymology of `visiting' files
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:48:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871t1zfmus.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874m6vlefc.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (pjb@informatimago.com)
> When you visit a friend's home, you enter it, you can look around, and
> you may touch and change something (move a vase from the table to the
> console) or not, and then leave the house.
>
> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-08 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-08 9:54 Etymology of `visiting' files Udyant Wig
2016-08-08 10:53 ` 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 [this message]
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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