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From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: "extinbox" term - was: [RFC 4/7] lei: proposed command-listing...
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 15:29:07 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn2urltv.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201226112649.GB6226@dcvr>

Eric Wong writes:

> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
>> +'add-extinbox' => [ 'URL-OR-PATHNAME',
>> +	'add/set priority of a publicinbox|extindex for extra matches',
>> +	qw(prio=i) ],
>> +'ls-extinbox' => [ '[FILTER]', 'list publicinbox|extindex sources',
>> +	qw(format|f=s z local remote) ],
>> +'forget-extinbox' => [ '{URL-OR-PATHNAME|--prune}',
>> +	'exclude further results from a publicinbox|extindex',
>> +	qw(prune) ],
>
> I'm a bit iffy on "extinbox"  It's supposed to be a short
> version meaning "either external index or a public inbox"
>
> However, it's the same length and only two middle letters
> away from "extindex" (short for "external index").

Fwiw my brain made the incorrect extinbox => extindex jump when first
glancing over the command names before reading the descriptions.

> Would "inboxish" be an appropriate term in place of "extinbox"?
> There's precedent with git using the terms "treeish" and
> "committish".

Yeah, that seems okay.  I think "ish" would certainly make it clear to
the reader that there is more going on while avoiding the issue above,
but I wonder if that's really much better than just using "inbox" in the
command names and making the descriptions state something to the effect
of "... or external index".  At least from the standpoint of the search
UI, it seems natural to think of an external index as an "inbox", but
perhaps such an overloading is setting things up for confusion.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-28 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-15 11:47 [PATCH/RFC 0/7] lei - Local Email Interface skeleton Eric Wong
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [PATCH 1/7] daemon: support --daemonize without Net::Server::Daemonize Eric Wong
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [PATCH 2/7] daemon: simplify fork() failure checks Eric Wong
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [RFC 3/7] lei: FD-passing and IPC basics Eric Wong
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [RFC 4/7] lei: proposed command-listing and options Eric Wong
2020-12-26 11:26   ` "extinbox" term - was: [RFC 4/7] lei: proposed command-listing Eric Wong
2020-12-28 15:29     ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2020-12-28 21:55       ` Eric Wong
2020-12-29  3:01         ` Kyle Meyer
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [RFC 5/7] lei_store: local storage for Local Email Interface Eric Wong
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [RFC 6/7] tests: more common JSON module loading Eric Wong
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [RFC 7/7] lei: use spawn (vfork + execve) for lazy start Eric Wong
2020-12-15 12:05 ` more considerations in UI/UX Eric Wong
2020-12-23  5:42   ` Kyle Meyer
2020-12-23  9:47     ` Eric Wong
2020-12-23 15:49       ` Kyle Meyer
2020-12-26 11:13     ` [RFC] lei: rename proposed "query" command to "q", add JSON output Eric Wong

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