From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: describe-bindings: ^L, bad order, naming Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:03:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4373BDF2.90106@student.lu.se> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131671069 5014 80.91.229.2 (11 Nov 2005 01:04:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:04:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 11 02:04:19 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaNK4-0002gT-6i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:03:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaNK3-0007H4-Km for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:03:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EaNJu-0007Gz-D8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:03:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EaNJs-0007FV-UN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:03:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaNJs-0007FS-Pj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:03:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EaNJs-0007aJ-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:03:08 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:03:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: <4373BDF2.90106@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:38:58 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:45711 Archived-At: 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