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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 36206@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36206: [PATCH] Change `user-error' docstring from "pilot error" to "user error"
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:08:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfy4nttc.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmmdvJvn9YqdAyTFY=K=yYrANWxcXnLvnkCgjDx5mTm6OQ@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:51:14 +0200")

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Right, but we are now discussing the term "pilot error".  Do you think
> that it is better than "user error"?  If yes, why?

History. Community. Cultural background.

I understand, that new users might not know such terms. But we shouldn't
give them up just because of this. We must explain somewhere, at least
with a reference to the hacker's dictionary or emacswiki or whatever.

If something is not explained in Wikipedia, it cannot be regarded as non
existing. It would be a poor world then.

> Thanks,
> Stefan Kangas

Best regards, Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-14 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-14 11:09 bug#36206: [PATCH] Change `user-error' docstring from "pilot error" to "user error" Stefan Kangas
2019-06-14 13:13 ` Michael Albinus
2019-06-14 13:25   ` Stefan Kangas
2019-06-14 13:35     ` Michael Albinus
2019-06-14 13:51       ` Stefan Kangas
2019-06-14 14:08         ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2019-06-14 15:02           ` Drew Adams
2019-06-14 14:40         ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-06-15  3:33           ` Richard Stallman
2019-06-14 14:32       ` Drew Adams
2019-06-14 14:42         ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-06-14 19:15     ` Juri Linkov
2019-06-15 22:34       ` Juri Linkov
2019-06-23  0:39 ` Paul Eggert
2019-06-23  1:00   ` Noam Postavsky
2019-06-23  9:00     ` Michael Albinus
2019-06-27  9:37     ` Paul Eggert
2019-06-23 15:41   ` Stefan Kangas

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