emacs-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: File menu changes (suggestions)


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: File menu changes (suggestions)
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:05:33 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:41:31 +0900
>> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Miles Bader <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, 
>> address@hidden, 
>>      address@hidden, address@hidden
>> 
>> On 6/27/05, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > > But it doesn't do the opposite of split-window...
>> > 
>> > That's a rather pedantic definition of opposite
>> 
>> No it's not (are you serious?).  "Unsplit window" vaguely implies that
>> it simply undoes a previous split-window
>
> To me, it means that a window (``frame'' in our parlance) that was
> previously split into two or more parts now becomes "unsplit", i.e. we
> are left with a frame that has only one window.

If you prefer that verb, I'd rather say something like "Unsplit all"
or something like that to make obvious that it is not symmetric with
"Split".

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]