Re: Path of tool-bar icons

[tomas]

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On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 02:47:39PM -0700, Drew Adams wrote:
> <user looks for "icon" instead of what Emacs expects: "image">
> 
> > > > This is a difficult thing in Emacs: it has
> > > > its own (strong) culture [...]

> 1. `C-h r'
> 
> `i glossary'
> (or `g glossary', if you know there is a node named Glossary)
> 
> If you want to suggest a common term to add to the glossary,
> to xref a more traditional Emacs term, even if the two are
> not exactly synonymous, you can do that: `M-x report-emacs-bug'.

Thanks! I didnn't know about "glossary". This is actually a
compelling approach. I'll spend some time with that.

[...]

> 3. However, I'm not sure that this problem of
> looking-for-"icon"-instead-of-"image" is really a
> problem of Emacs using uncommon jargon.  I'd think
> that it's kinda natural to look for "image" if "icon"
> finds no hits wrt the tool bar.

Remember that not all of us are native English speakers,
thus composing the subtle lexical problem.

Of course, after the fact it's even clear to me that I
should have tried "image" after having failed with "icon",
but that's too late :)

Cheers
- -- tomás
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