From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ams@kemisten.nu (Alfred M. Szmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: 20 Apr 2002 21:51:43 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7263-Sat20Apr2002145929+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <3CC1BEB9.9020104@cs.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019332461 2780 127.0.0.1 (20 Apr 2002 19:54:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:54:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , link@pobox.com, bradym@balestra.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16z0w9-0000ij-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:54:21 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16z1G8-00070R-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:15:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16z0vy-0004ET-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:54:10 -0400 Original-Received: from lgh163a.kemisten.nu ([212.32.172.173]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16z0uB-00043U-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:52:19 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by lgh163a.kemisten.nu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16z0tb-0002hR-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:51:43 +0200 Original-To: Michael Toomim In-Reply-To: <3CC1BEB9.9020104@cs.berkeley.edu> Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2878 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2878 * Michael Toomim writes: > Changing the terminology would help new users, and I think that old > users would be able to get used to the changes pretty quickly, since > they'd all be pretty intuitive (assuming they're just being updated > to the terms commonly used today). Seriously, changing the terminology just to help new users is to funny, if someone wants to learn about the terminology then they should read the dictionary (it actually exists to be read). Just because someone doesn't understand what `esophagus' means, doesn't mean that the word should be changed to something that is more suitable to new people that are interested in biology. -- Alfred M. Szmidt