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From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Remove delete-overlay?
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:50:48 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoejo9z407.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87irdl3543.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se

Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> writes:
> By the way, I agree with Lennart: while (to me) `delete' has
> misleading connotations, `remove' is just right.

What connotations are those?

[For the most part, "remove" and "delete" are synonyms; I generally try
to always pair add/remove and insert/delete, just to keep things tidy,
but that's just me...]

-Miles
-- 
"Suppose He doesn't give a shit?  Suppose there is a God but He
just doesn't give a shit?"  [George Carlin]

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-01  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-28 21:47 Remove delete-overlay? Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-28 22:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-01  5:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-01  5:27   ` Daniel Brockman
2007-03-01  9:50     ` Miles Bader [this message]
2007-03-01 10:35       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-01 12:17         ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-03-01 16:42           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-03-01 22:33         ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-03-02  3:27         ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-02  3:28     ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-01  8:14 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-01 22:43   ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-03-01 23:12     ` Miles Bader

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