Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
> But even though we did not do anything wrong, it is unfortunate for usMostly there *aren't* any "standard modern terms", because there are
> nonetheless. If it is possible to change Emacs to use some standard
> modern terms instead of its current terms, it might be worth doing,
> even if it means a series of renaming spread over a period of years.
no other editors in which there is so much decoupling between the
local equivalents of our core concepts that they need to be described
separately.
There's a parallel with git jargon here...