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: Rename `eww' to `web' Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:40:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8738s087wj.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372599669 2316 80.91.229.3 (30 Jun 2013 13:41:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 13:41:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 30 15:41:11 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UtHsM-0006Ar-7q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 15:41:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41977 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtHsL-00016S-SF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57958) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtHs6-0000hk-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:40:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtHs5-0001bb-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:40:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtHs5-0001bV-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtHs4-0006Z1-1D; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:40:52 -0400 In-reply-to: <8738s087wj.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Jambunathan K on Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:19:48 +0530) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:161347 Archived-At: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. Why refuse the right of someone to name a package his own quirky/creative way. Quirky names are easy to remember. Alas, it is not so. Quirky names are easy to forget, especially when there are lots of them and you only rarely think about them. Especially if you're getting old. Moreover, users who have never have seen the quirky name have no chance of guessing it. eww is not a lisp library but a functional package. The fact that this is not only for Lisp programmers makes the issue more important. Just provide means - a toolbar icon and a key binding - to start the web. This way the user never has to do a Emacs has lots of key bindings, and people remember only the ones they use often. The command name is supposed to be easier to remember than the key binding. It is impossible to find natural key bindings for all the commands of Emacs, but we can give them all natural command names. Web browsing may be important enough to justify a toolbar icon. But the command name should be natural too. Ideally a command should have the name you would guess it has (if you didn't know). -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.