From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Another VC terminology change? Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:59:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20071011143005.GA18057@thyrsus.com> <20071011175016.GB8243@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192205811 15104 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2007 16:16:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 12 18:16:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IgN00-0001oo-Ui for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:04:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgMzu-0004mI-P5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:04:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IgMvB-0002tz-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IgMvA-0002tH-8G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgMvA-0002t7-1E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:59:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IgMv9-0000Zk-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IgMv9-0001FU-5f; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:59:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <20071011175016.GB8243@thyrsus.com> (esr@thyrsus.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80719 Archived-At: Perhaps you missed my longer email on that issue. I don't see a problem there; in fact I would actively resist inventing a new term because I think fuileset means the same thing in both places. I wish that were true, but it isn't. In VC, a fileset is the set of files marked in a dired buffer. This is a transitory set. In the Filesets node, filesets are semipermanent entities that you define with filesets-add-buffer or other mechanisms. It will be natural for the reader to suppose that "fileset" refers to the same sort of thing everywhere it is used in the manual. But it doesn't, and that is a serious problem. We cannot leave things this way.