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Re: toolbar conventions
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Bill Wohler |
Subject: |
Re: toolbar conventions |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:26:20 -0800 |
Richard M. Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> By the way, I checked both the O'Reilly style guide and the Microsoft
> style guide and both agreed on "menu bar" and "toolbar." Given that
> technical terms go from two words, to a hyphenated form, to a single
> word, it's likely that's what we're seeing here.
>
> Menu bars are older than tool bars, so if it were simply a natural
> progression, it is peculiar that it has proceeded faster for
> tool bars than for menu bars.
Interesting observation.
> Given that, should we be using "toolbar" in both text and code in
> anticipation of a future renaming of tool-bar to toolbar?
>
> I tend to think we should treat the two alike.
I think I'd agree. So do we go with "menubar" and "toolbar" in the
future, or "menu bar" and "tool bar"? Given the following stats, and
because we have menu-bar.el and tool-bar.el already, I'd say the inertia
clearly indicates that "menu bar" and "tool bar" would be the desired
choices for Emacs.
I can add a Style Guide subheading to (elisp)Coding Conventions and
(elisp)Documentation Tips and include this information if you like.
address@hidden:586]$ grep -ri menubar --exclude \*.elc * --exclude
ChangeLog\* --exclude loaddefs.el --exclude ldefs-boot.el| wc
241 2060 23519
address@hidden:587]$ grep -ri menu.bar --exclude \*.elc * --exclude
ChangeLog\* --exclude loaddefs.el --exclude ldefs-boot.el| wc
1523 8660 109482
address@hidden:588]$ grep -ri toolbar --exclude \*.elc * --exclude
ChangeLog\* --exclude loaddefs.el --exclude ldefs-boot.el| wc
330 2245 30068
address@hidden:589]$ grep -ri tool.bar --exclude \*.elc * --exclude
ChangeLog\* --exclude loaddefs.el --exclude ldefs-boot.el| wc
400 2048 26282
> But there is no rush
> to change this; let's leave it alone, for now.
Agree, but new code should use "menu bar" and "tool bar."
How about speedbar though?
> Does anyone have any ideas on the issue of how to use the term
> "option"? That issue is more important--it is not just an issue of
> punctuation, it is inconsistent use of a word. Would someone like to
> study the situation and find out which uses occur where?
I don't recall this thread. What was the subject?
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- Re: toolbar conventions, (continued)
- Re: toolbar conventions, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/18
- Re: toolbar conventions, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/12/19
- RE: toolbar conventions, Drew Adams, 2005/12/19
- Re: toolbar conventions, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/20
- user preferences (was RE: toolbar conventions), Drew Adams, 2005/12/20
- Re: user preferences (was RE: toolbar conventions), Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/22
- Re: user preferences (was RE: toolbar conventions), Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/22
- RE: user preferences (was RE: toolbar conventions), Drew Adams, 2005/12/22
- Re: user preferences (was RE: toolbar conventions), Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/23
- Re: toolbar conventions, Glenn Morris, 2005/12/20
Re: toolbar conventions,
Bill Wohler <=
Re: toolbar conventions, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/12/17
Re: toolbar conventions, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/12/18