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Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias?


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias?
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:00:40 -0400

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  > FWIW, let me mention that i absolutely agree with you, for essentially
  > the same reasons as you, and also:

  >   - using a search engine to get help about something not working for
  >     'eglot' is much easier than any of the "discoverable" alternatives;

We should try harder to find clearer alternatives to consider, before
conclusing it can't be done.

    > - original names are part of the joy of programming,

There is plenty of other scope for that.  Certain aspects
of the user interface are important for users, and we need to
give that priority.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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