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Re: toolbar conventions


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Re: toolbar conventions
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:12:39 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

"Richard M. Stallman" wrote:

> original problem, to find some other solution to the original problem,
> some other term for "all the things that can appear in a Custom
> buffer."
>
> In January, some people argued for "preference".  We could use that.
> Or perhaps "setting".  What do people think of those?  Any other
> suggestions?

Use "customizable" as a noun. Or make a compound noun, eg
custom-item/-object/-setting.

If you try and redefine a common term like "setting" to mean "that
which can be customized via the Emacs customize facility", eedjits
such as myself will never remember the "special Emacs meaning".





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