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Re: Etymology of `visiting' files
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: Etymology of `visiting' files |
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Mon, 08 Aug 2016 12:53:43 +0200 |
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Udyant Wig <udyant@rudiments.goosenet.in> writes:
> What motivated the choice of the verb `visiting'?
>
> From reading some of the relevant section in the Emacs and Elisp
> manuals, I understand the process the verb names. However, I wanted to
> find some reasoning or discussion about the choice of verb; my own
> expectation would have been something like `edit' or `load', but that
> would be looking through the lens provided by recent editing systems.
When you visit a friend's home, you enter it, you can look around, and
you may touch and change something (move a vase from the table to the
console) or not, and then leave the house.
Same with files.
visit = (or edit load)
edit implies some mutation.
load implies no mutation.
When you visit, you can do either.
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