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]
next prev parent 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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