Re: Emacs learning curve

[Tassilo Horn]

On Monday 02 August 2010 15:26:54 Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> > The idea (for me anyway) is not to lure new users (I have given up
> > the hope to understand what they need/want a lot time ago), but just
> > to make Emacs better.  And following standards (be they protocols,
> > libraries, terminology, behavior) is generally a good thing.  So the
> > only reason not to follow standards is when we have a better story.
> > In the case of yank/paste and point/cursor, I don't think our story
> > is that much better: it's more a historical accident.
> 
> Wouldn't that be an argument to use window/pane too, instead of
> frame/window?

That was the first thing that came in my mind, too.  But in contrast to
copy/cut/paste, current and "modern" names are not disjunctive, so there
is no possibility to provide aliases for the old names.

One major problem I see with those modernization ideas is that it would
make it even harder to write packages that work on all emacs flavours.
Either you'd need to define lots of compatibility code or use the old
name aliases.  Neither of those alternatives looks desirable to me, and
in any case it makes life harder for potential new developers.

Bye,
Tassilo