Re: Options menu names

[John Paul Wallington]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

> All that you did was to argue by appealing to authority: some unnamed,
> undescribed "widespread conventions that users expect." That's an empty
> argument/explanation without saying what that authority is: what conventions
> are you referring to? What user-expecting convention does "Syntax
> Highlighting" follow?

The issue is largely moot because there is no "Syntax Highlighting"
entry in the Option menu since it was removed on 2005-11-14 after
`global-font-lock-mode' had been turned on by default.


FWIW, I agree with Eli.  I think that "syntax highlighting" is what
the feature is often called by Emacs users and potential Emacs users,
and that changing the entry for the sake of uniformity isn't
worthwhile.

I suppose my impression that I have heard people use the phrase
"syntax highlighting" often may be faulty.  However, doing Google
searches for "syntax highlighting" versus "highlight syntax" for
either the web or usenet with or without Emacs as a qualifier suggests
that the phrase "syntax highlighting" is used much more frequently
than "highlight syntax".