From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 16074@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16074: 24.3.50; enhancement request: Remove "pop" from command names & doc for `C-(u|x) C-SPC'
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:47:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zisc4gku.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb3c1188-7123-413c-b945-6f73ba4557c7@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 6 Dec 2013 07:46:16 -0800 (PST)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> See http://stackoverflow.com/a/20427244/729907.
>
> The names and doc of the commands bound to `C-u C-SPC' and `C-x C-SPC'
> are misleading, in that the commands do not really "pop" the marker
> rings. They cycle the rings. Markers are not removed from the rings
> by such "popping".
>
> Emacs uses the verb "cycle" for this kind of behavior elsewhere. The
> same terminology should be used here also. We should rename
> `pop-global-mark' and rephrase the doc.
Heh. I didn't even know that they didn't pop, after all these years.
Yes, renaming here seems like a good idea.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-06 15:46 bug#16074: 24.3.50; enhancement request: Remove "pop" from command names & doc for `C-(u|x) C-SPC' Drew Adams
2016-04-29 14:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-08-24 5:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-08-24 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 14:20 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-25 5:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-25 16:14 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-25 20:09 ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-25 22:03 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-26 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-13 10:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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2019-08-24 14:22 ` Drew Adams
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2019-08-26 13:13 ` Drew Adams
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