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Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr]
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Tom |
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Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr] |
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Thu, 9 Jan 2014 19:11:23 +0000 (UTC) |
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David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> It's more like "it's unavoidable to provide difficulties to learning
> because it can do a lot, and when a lot is easily accessible, you'll
> have stuff getting in your hair accidentally".
Arbitrary roadblocks can be removed, though.
For example, yank is not a superior term to paste, so paste could be
used instead. One unnecessary difference less. And it is only one example,
there are others.
Emacs provides enough material to learn without these arbitrary (legacy)
differences, so these should be eliminated where possible.
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], (continued)
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Jose E. Marchesi, 2014/01/07
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Per Starbäck, 2014/01/09
- RE: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Drew Adams, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Per Starbäck, 2014/01/09
- RE: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Drew Adams, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Per Starbäck, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], David Kastrup, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr],
Tom <=
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], David Kastrup, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Davis Herring, 2014/01/10
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], David Kastrup, 2014/01/10
- RE: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Drew Adams, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Richard Stallman, 2014/01/10
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Per Starbäck, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], David Kastrup, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Glenn Morris, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/17