From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Subject: Re: describe-bindings: ^L, bad order, naming
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:03:00 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1EaNJk-0004SKC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4373BDF2.90106@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:38:58 +0100)
I would go for just "Keyboard Shortcuts".
But that is inaccurate! They are certainly not shortcuts! You have
to type them! Perhaps compared to something you type, voice
recognition would provide `shortcuts', until voice recognition became
common.
"Keyboard Bindings" makes much more sense. If recent terminology is
wrong and misleading, we should tell people that, and point them
towards better language.
(Just so we do not waste time in argument, that is why I have long
argued against Emacs' use of the word `kill' meaning Christian-style
resurrection, which is not a `killing' in most people's language.
`Cut', a non-Emacs term, comes from a poor metaphor, too. Nowadays,
few people with computers physically cut up paper newspapers and paste
elsewhere the resulting printed text.)
... explain the terminology in another way.
Yes. Definitely.
--
Robert J. Chassell
bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc
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Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-10 20:29 describe-bindings: ^L, bad order, naming David Reitter
2005-11-10 21:27 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-10 21:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-11 1:03 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2005-11-11 2:55 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-11 9:18 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-11 7:43 ` David Reitter
2005-11-11 9:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-11 10:20 ` Henrik Enberg
2005-11-13 20:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-13 22:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-13 23:13 ` David Reitter
2005-11-14 0:10 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-14 0:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-14 4:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-14 15:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-15 5:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-19 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-15 3:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-14 4:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-14 17:48 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-14 18:18 ` Help menu (was: Re: describe-bindings: ^L, bad order, naming) David Reitter
2005-11-15 4:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-15 4:11 ` Help menu Juri Linkov
2005-11-15 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-15 18:07 ` Help menu (was: Re: describe-bindings: ^L, bad order, naming) Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-15 18:19 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-15 18:15 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-16 22:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-16 23:29 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-18 17:00 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-18 17:58 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-18 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-19 23:26 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-19 23:44 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-19 23:26 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-19 23:44 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-16 22:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-14 10:45 ` describe-bindings: ^L, bad order, naming Jason Rumney
2005-11-11 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-11 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-11 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-11 18:02 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-11 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-11 20:47 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-11-11 8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-11 9:33 ` David Reitter
2005-11-11 10:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-11 10:17 ` David Reitter
2005-11-11 18:02 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-11 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-11 19:10 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-11 20:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-11 21:16 ` David Reitter
2005-11-11 21:26 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-11 22:32 ` David Reitter
2005-11-11 22:42 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-11 23:40 ` David Reitter
2005-11-11 21:25 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-12 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-12 12:28 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-11-12 12:58 ` David Reitter
2005-11-12 14:28 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-12 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-12 20:20 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-12 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-12 13:56 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-11 19:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-13 20:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-11 19:35 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-11 21:01 ` David Reitter
2005-11-12 21:19 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-12 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-12 21:53 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-12 23:09 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-12 23:23 ` Chong Yidong
2005-11-12 23:35 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-14 4:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-14 0:55 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-13 20:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-13 21:16 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-13 21:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-13 23:06 ` David Reitter
2005-11-15 5:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-29 17:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-29 18:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-30 4:56 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-30 5:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-30 10:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-12-30 22:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-14 11:59 ` David Reitter
2005-11-14 14:27 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-15 5:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
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