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From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Remove delete-overlay?
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:17:09 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1HMkDd-0004EqC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45E6AC5B.20502@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com)

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
   Since I am non-english I had to consult a dictionary now:

   ...
   - remove: to change the location, position -- but also to get rid
   of, eliminate

   I think the first meaning of "remove" is what our teachers tell us.

Interesting!  As a native English speaker, the second meaning is
relevant.  I have never heard of the first, although it makes sense
etymologically, as in `move again'!

I would use a word such as `move' or `detach'.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-01 12:17 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
2007-03-01 10:35       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-01 12:17         ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
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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