From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Where are keycodes defined for emacs -nw in X-Windows? Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:21:07 GMT Organization: Level(3) Communications, Woburn, MA Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <0lflnb.16.ln@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067356030 12463 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 15:47:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 16:47:06 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEW3l-0002qG-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:47:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEW3Z-0002HN-2K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:46:53 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsfeed.sjc.globix.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.218.192.242!news.he.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.level3.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: never X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Originator: barmar@genuity.net (Barry Margolin) Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 171.78.176.30 Original-X-Trace: news.level3.com 1067354467 171.78.176.30 (Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:21:07 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:21:07 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117649 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13580 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13580 In article <0lflnb.16.ln@acm.acm>, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >So, one can store default values of program "resources"; but still no >sentence which has "resource" as the subject and "is" as the verb. I >think "resource" is the X11 term for what sensible programs call >"settings" or "options" (or "customizable variables" ;-) and patronising >programs call "preferences". It would be nice to be told, though, rather >than having to pick it up osmotically. > >Why must the English language be so misused? A "resource" is something >one can utilise productively and which it's good to have a lot of, like >money or disk space or agricultural land, or manufacturing plants. What >was wrong with the word "setting"? I think Apple may have introduced the use of the word "resource" for this type of thing being used with GUI systems, but I wouldn't be surprised if it goes back to Xerox. All Macintosh files have a separate "resource fork" that contains structured data that goes along with the application data. Some of these resources are just settings, but other resources are used to hold messages, dialogue layouts, etc. I think the X designers envisioned that its resources might also get more general use than just parameter settings, so they copied the more general term. -- Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com Level(3), Woburn, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.