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Re: Tumme menu in Dired, what to do about it?


From: Nick Roberts
Subject: Re: Tumme menu in Dired, what to do about it?
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 01:20:54 +1200

 > >> Assuming tumme-tag-remove deletes tags, tumme-tag-delete sounds better.
 > >
 > > I trust your judgement on this one (my English skills are not good
 > > enough).
 > 
 > I am opposed.  "tumme-tag-delete" sounds like it would delete tagged
 > files, not like it would remove tags from files.  "delete" sounds more
 > appropriate with more physical entities than just tags.  You can,
 > after "deleting" a tag, put it right on afterwards again.

If it deleted files, I guess it would be called tumme-file-delete.  After you
remove a file with 'rm', do you feel you can get it back again?

Delete is certainly not more appropriate with more physical entities.  When
I move house, the removal men take my furniture, not the "deletion men".

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob




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