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Re: Changes in the menu bar


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Changes in the menu bar
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:24:33 +0200

> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:03:47 -0700 (MST)
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> 
>     But that would make the "Lookup in Glossary" item inconsistent with the 
>     two other "Lookup" items right near it, which look up subjects in the 
>     indices of the Emacs and ELisp manuals.  Isn't it better to be 
>     consistent here?
> 
> You are right that the name "Lookup in Glossary" does not go with a
> command that just goes to the Glossary.  I presume that name was
> chosen to describe the behavior which reads an argument in the minibuffer.
> 
> This name would not fit the behavior of just going to the glossary,
> so we would want to use a different name.  Perhaps  Read Glossary.
> Then there will be no inconsistency.
> 
> I just wonder one thing--why wasn't this obvious?

Becauise I was talking about the consistency of *operation*, not
consistency of wording.  I thought it was obvious ;-)

> Please let's just do this the simple way, and move on to solve
> other problems.

Done.  Thanks for the feedback, everybody.



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