From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr] Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 19:11:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <877gact76s.fsf@gnu.org> <34c8c13b-c5c6-4e5a-9248-b09d5d1936da@default> <87eh4hkq6c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389294723 27310 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 19:12:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 19:12:03 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 20:12:11 2014 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 1W1L1T-0004Po-Rs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:12:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1L1T-0007ed-55 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:12:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1L1K-0007XV-8y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:12:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1L1B-0005lX-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:11:58 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58172) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1L1B-0005lP-7A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:11:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W1L18-0003aQ-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:11:46 +0100 Original-Received: from 217-197-183-101.pool.digikabel.hu ([217.197.183.101]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:11:46 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 217-197-183-101.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:11:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 217.197.183.101 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:167964 Archived-At: David Kastrup gnu.org> writes: > > It's more like "it's unavoidable to provide difficulties to learning > because it can do a lot, and when a lot is easily accessible, you'll > have stuff getting in your hair accidentally". Arbitrary roadblocks can be removed, though. For example, yank is not a superior term to paste, so paste could be used instead. One unnecessary difference less. And it is only one example, there are others. Emacs provides enough material to learn without these arbitrary (legacy) differences, so these should be eliminated where possible.