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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::835 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:240545 Archived-At: --000000000000fe5b9505940c15c0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 8:40 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > FWIW, I actually considered it when Juanma asked for better names, but > eventually decided that such names will be too obscure, except for few > initiated people. I think -M and -N is much easier to understand and > remember. The more I think about it, the more I like "major tick" and "minor tick". They are a bit obscure, yeah. OTOH, they reflect exactly what the feature is intended to do (at least,what I intended it to do), and "major" vs "minor", and its association with rulers, clearly states that major ticks have precedence over minor ones. --000000000000fe5b9505940c15c0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 8:40 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> FWI= W, I actually considered it when Juanma asked for better names, but
>= eventually decided that such names will be too obscure, except for few
= > initiated people.=C2=A0 I think -M and -N is much easier to understand= and
> remember.

The more I think about it, = the more I like "major tick" and "minor tick". They are= a bit obscure, yeah. OTOH, they reflect exactly what the feature is intend= ed to do (at least,what I intended it to do), and "major" vs &quo= t;minor", and its association with rulers, clearly states that major t= icks have precedence over minor ones.


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