From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Etymology of `visiting' files
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:58:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87invbmkfg.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y447oaaw.fsf@rudiments.goosenet.in
On Mon, 08 Aug 2016 15:24:31 +0530 Udyant Wig <udyant@rudiments.goosenet.in> wrote:
UW> What motivated the choice of the verb `visiting'?
UW> From reading some of the relevant section in the Emacs and Elisp
UW> manuals, I understand the process the verb names. However, I wanted to
UW> find some reasoning or discussion about the choice of verb; my own
UW> expectation would have been something like `edit' or `load', but that
UW> would be looking through the lens provided by recent editing systems.
The term "visiting" does not show up in a 1978 guide to Emacs (but maybe
it was already in use):
https://web.archive.org/web/20110723033542/http://www.burlingtontelecom.net/~ashawley/gnu/emacs/doc/emacs-1978.html#Basic-File_002dHandling-Commands
It shows up in 1981, in the RMS paper on Emacs:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html
Either way, I think it predates modern CUA standards, which emerged in
the late 80's, and which AFAIK set down the File menu (with Quit and
Open items) consistently.
HTH
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-08 13:58 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
2016-08-09 5:17 ` Udyant Wig
2016-08-08 13:58 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
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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